Dostoevsky

I was on Pinterest, finding better images for my canvas courses for university, and I was finding some for my Russian lit class. I literally just searched “Dostoevsky.” I was not expecting on finding such a plethora of amazing memes about him.

From, just a bow on his head (making him coquette), which I thought was so funny…to…well…I’ll just share some. I’ll compile a whole list for your entertainment. And no images even necessary, because they are all of the EXACT same picture of Dostoevsky. Either this picture people find very laughable, or it’s the only picture of him. It can be either one, I don’t know. (Laughable = meme worthy picture).

1. “Идиоты” - which is one of these novels “Idiots.” The reason why it’s so funny is because it’s a picture of him sitting with his hands folded, and he’s staring off into space. True melancholy. True Russian right here. And if you know anything about Russian, you don’t need words like “the” or “a” so just “idiots” it’s like he’s calling someone idiots (the audience, the readers, the viewers, us, the person looking at the picture/meme?)

2. “OG yapper” facts- and my professor who talks about him competes

3. “I was written by this fellow” whoever said this- no ME

4. “Signs you’re literally Fyodor Dostoevsky” it sounds like a Buzzfeed quiz

5. “Dostoevsky’s novels where a moment’s temptation becomes a 500-page confession” no because this is so true, and it’s literally a sign of a true writer. This is what they can do. And artfully, tastefully, too.

6. “He would have loved me” I connected with this one because to me, it’s like if you’re one of his characters (“I was written by this fellow”) and you just are suited to him, and it’s funny to think about if you would’ve loved you then, because you’re like him, literally written by him…

7. “yall don’t get him like i do” whoever wrote this I will fight them because there is no one who gets him more than i do

8. “i feel like my life is a novel written by dostoevsky” truer words have never been spoken

9. “How dostoevsky readers look at other people” and it’s a picture of a guy looking very judgementally

10. “I wonder what would Dostoevsky think about me if he knew me” and it’s a picture of a girl sitting on the floor of a library aisle- perhaps the Russian aisle. This one reminds me of the “he would have loved me” because yes, I too wonder what he is thinking about me. Perhaps he knows I am writing this right now, perhaps he is reading every word, and watching over my shoulder as I sit and read his novels.

11. “I can fix her” “her:”

12. “how can someone have a god complex and be depressed for 700 pages straight” and it’s an image of Раскольников from the novel Преступление и наказание (Crime and Punishment).

13. “Girl dinner” and its’ a picture of Crime and Punishment on a plate with a napkin nearby with a fork and knife.

14. “dear parent, if your daughter smiles at her phone that doesn’t mean she is texting with her boyfriend, that means she is reading most depressing quote said by Dostoevsky” real this feels targeted at my mother

15. “Rasholnikov listening to marmeladov speak at that damn tavern for entire pages straight in font size 10” and it’s a picture of a little white fuzzy cat sitting at a table with a bottle of alcohol nearby

16. “Me sitting in class” -real, especially that class

17. “imagine hating on me and this is me” and it’s a picture of a cartoon dog reading Crime and Punishment

18. “When I’m at a yapping contest and my competition is this guy:” yeah in that case might as well

19. “sometimes babygirl is just a Russian man who accidentally became ap hilosopher and wrote books where he is suffering his characters are suffering and his readers are also suffering”

Yeah I vibe so much with this dude. His philosophy, his melancholy, his suffering, it’s all just like me, and just like my blog. Things that I think about on the daily.

I wanted to start reading Russian literature to connect with my culture, I mean these are renowned authors, but little did I expect how great it was going to be. How much I was going to connect ,and understand my culture more.