/lit/ - Literature

>Dozily he cast a cold and disapproving glance at the approaching Svidrigailov.
>Manifest on his features was that age-old look of querulous sorrow that is so acerbicly imprinted on the faces of each member of the Hebrew tribe without exception.


Umm, why did no one yell me Russian literature was based?

Is Shakespeare the only comparable figure?

The only upside of being born in a Russian-speaking country is being able to read Big D, Chekhov and Pushkin in original

It's an autobiography.

trying to make a an intro chart/list for russian lit for someone (in translation.) how does this look (in order)? im looking to add a bunch of secondary sources/criticism/history of russia stuff too if you're familiar

>pushkin, eugene onegin 1837
>lermontov, a hero of our time 1840
>goncharov, oblomov 1859
>turgenev, fathers and sons 1862
>dostoevsky, notes from underground 1864
>dostoevsky, crime and punishment 1866
>tolstoy, war and peace 1869
>dostoevsky, the idiot 1869
>tolstoy, anna karenina 1877
>dostoevsky, brothers karamazov 1880
>chekhov, the cherry orchard 1903
>gorky, mother 1907
>grossman, life and fate 1960
>isiah berlin, hedgehog and the fox 1953
>nabokov, lolita 1955
>pasternak, doctor zhivago 1957
>nabokov, pale fire 1962
>bulgakov, the master and margarita 1967
>solzhenitsyn, gulag archipelago 1973
>bakhtin, the dialogic imagination 1975