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Ihtiandr:

That's exactly why I didn't bother reading this nonsense in school.

This is written by someone who was frothing at the mouth, trying to "prove" the thesis about the superiority of "men" as individuals over "women." Ha-ha.

E-t' - to hammer:

"In 'War and Peace,' there's a passage of about 40 pages where Tolstoy describes a bird's flight during the lull before a battle. I think you can only come up with something like that under the influence of heavy drugs."

This belongs in a collection of "nonsense"!

Honestly, I don't understand why they force us to read this garbage in school, and in such large quantities. Everyone should read the books they enjoy.

Here's a secret: the school literature curriculum is designed for a very "average" teenager. Those who were considered advanced in the humanities read two or three times as much. And in addition to that, they managed to do a lot...

Familiarizing yourself with literature is not like going to McDonald's. If a work is written by a person who has experienced war, seen death, and risked his life (Tolstoy, Hemingway), then it simply cannot be adequately perceived by a 14-year-old brat, dreaming of Big Macs or a late-night Dota session. And that's the "messianic" aspect of literature lessons, and teachers in particular, to gently nudge the young idiot out of his "naive-realistic universe."