I'm this anon
>>634 back after a year to report that I have now read practically everything Dostoyevsky has ever written. And I don't have anything intelligent to say about it other than… god damn. This man had the midas touch
but instead of gold, he turned everything he touched into yaoi. I'm in awe at how effortlessly he wrote compelling relationships between his male characters and just how much he sucked at writing good het romances kek. All of his het couples are basically just
>uhh, they made eye contact once and instantly fell in loveThen he goes on to meticulously describe how these two male characters who are bitter rivals kissed each other on the mouth for five pages. He does this shit all the time and I absolutely love it! Sometimes I wonder if any 19th century Russian ladies had a fujo awakening by reading Dostoyevsky's works kek.
I'd also like to retract my previous statement about The Brothers Karamazov not being BL material. That could not be further from the truth omg it's the promised land for brother/brother incest enjoyers. There's so much delicious drama and tension between all of them and each pairing comes with its own unique flavour and dynamics. I owe my life to Dostoyevsky for writing Alyosha giving Ivan
a cute little kiss on the mouth. I am this close to writing fanfiction about it.
As for his other works, I'd say his longer stories have the most homoeroticism in them. So stuff like The Idiot and Crime and Punishment get really gay at certain points. I found The Eternal Husband to be unexpectedly homo too. I definitely recommend it for people into the 'pathetic middle-aged man' trope in BL kek.
Anyway, I'm glad I picked up The Brothers Karamazov last year. It really opened my eyes to the world of Russian lit and now I want to branch out to other authors. I want to give Gogol and Pushkin a try, maybe Tolstoy but I'm not too sure.