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Vadim, I found these sentences easy to understand, but I guess you have to look from the standpoint of a person who does not speak Russian as a native language. In your case, you found it complicated...

Well, hold on there, Brett, I didn't say Dostoyevsky's works aren't brilliant, I'm just saying I did not find his writing style as amazingly complicated as Russians claim it to be.

No, I meant even Russians say that he's notoriously complicated. Do they mean that his writing style is complicated and hard to understand(because I did not find it so), or that the concepts and...

For some reason I find Dostoyevsky's style more or less straightforward. What exactly is supposed to be so complicated about him?

The Dual Reader that I have is very liberal in its translation of the Russian texts. If they were actually one-to-one translations, maybe that would be a better idea.

Hey, couldn't you just pick up copies of various Russian classics and then read them alongside the English translation? Might not be the best way to go about doing it, but it's basically the same...