Victor Hugo: "You all call me the 'Conscience of France,' but right now it beats in Lionel's breast!" Émile Zola: "'Naturalism' or 'Realism'? No, only Lionel's 'Modernism' belongs to the 20th century!" Gustave Flaubert: "Maupassant was my best student, Lionel my confidant." Guy de Maupassant: "Lionel's only shortcoming was that he had not contracted the noble, majestic syphilis." Anton Chekhov: "What else do we need in this world besides sunshine, air, water, and a smile? Lionel's works, of course!" Leo Tolstoy: "Are you suggesting that I go to Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize that Lionel Sorel refused?" Arthur Conan Doyle: "To be Sherlock Holmes's assistant, to be accepted by Lionel...

Years later, when Nabokov was lecturing on Russian literature in the United States, he proceeded in this way.

In the pitch-black room, he first turned on a corner lamp and declared, "Pushkin is the first shining light of Russian literature."

He then flicked on a central lamp and declared, "This is Gogol." He then turned

on another lamp and declared, "This is Chekhov."

Then, striding to the window, he forcefully ripped open the curtains, letting in the bright sunlight, and exclaimed, "This is Tolstoy!"

After calming down for a moment, a student raised their hand and asked, "Professor, what about the sky outside?"

"You know it without me telling you." Nabokov opened the window and gazed at the boundless sky:

"The source of the modern world! Both spiritually and physically!"

The immortal Mikhail Romanovich Raskolnikov! "

Simplified version: Back to the winter of 1843 in Russia, Mikhail gradually became a Russian literary giant and even the spiritual leader of the entire European continent.

This book is also known as: "The Years I Diagnosed Diseases in Russia", "You Don't Even Dare to Diagnose Diseases? Then You Are Not a Literary Giant!"

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