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What are some essential Slavic literature?

>> No.5811788

>>5811770
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk

>> No.5811807

>>5811788
came to post this

>> No.5811882

>>5811770

I don't know like classical literature? Fair part of it we have thanks to Slavs

>> No.5811900

Everything Gogol. Tolly and Dosto are pretty cool, too. Turgenev and Pushkin are pretty meh, but you may want to check them out.

>> No.5812050

>>5811900
>Pushkin
>meh

behold people, i reveal to you what translations did to this poor fellow

>> No.5812055

>>5811900
This, also Taras Shevchenko, Ranko Marinković, Miroslav Krleža for some ex-yu literature

>> No.5812059

>>5812050
No, that guy is just retarded.

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>>5812756
>not posting the superior cover

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>>5811770
Roadside Picnic
>>5811788
Also this, movie is pretty fun too
Look at this face mate

>> No.5812989

What's /lit/'s thoughts on Chekhov?

I have yet to read him but my mom (who has bretty gud taste, got me into Dostoyevsky) says he's great

>> No.5812999

>>5812989
Go read one of his short stories, decide for urself

>> No.5813006

>Marinković
Kiklop is pretty good.
>Krleža
I don't really like his prose. His plays are better.

I don't really think these have english translation though(at least not most of them).

>> No.5813014

my history teacher claimed that slave<slav