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ITT: your top three favorite Russian fiction works.

1: Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
2: The Idiot - Dostoievski
3: Any collection of short stories - Chekhov

>> No.9131707

we need to make ilf and petrov a meme.

>> No.9131714

>>9131700
In no particular order

Vasily Grossman- Everything Flows
Nikolai Gogol- Dead Souls
Mikhail Lermontov- A Hero Of Our Time

>> No.9131729

A. Dugin - The Foundations of Geopolitics
A. Dugin - The Fourth Political Theory
A. Dugin - Eurasian Mission

Take the red pill, you insufferable cucks.

>> No.9131739

>>9131729
Foundations Of Geopolitics is a good read yeah, if kind of unnerving

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>>9131700
+ Master and Margarita and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>> No.9131750

Nekrasov Viktor - In The Trenches of Stalingrad.
Ostrovsky - How the Steel Was Tempered.
Sholochov - They Fought For The Motherland

>> No.9131756

we need to make ilf and petrov a meme before you all neck yourself, neckbeards

>> No.9131768
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>>9131750

>> No.9131776
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Unrelated, but still:

I worked at a library for a long time.
I've heard "Dostoievski" pronounced in every possible way.

The best one, which made me lmao hard, was "DOSTINOVSKI"

>> No.9131782

>>9131756
>we need to make highly specific language-bound soviet humor a meme
Oтъeбиcь.

>> No.9131783

>>9131768
Putin + USSR ? Lol!

>> No.9131793

>>9131714
>Dead Souls
Well said, my fellow patrician

If Gogol isn't on your list you need to seriously rethink your life

>> No.9131818
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Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
Second Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Alexievich
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

I highly recommend Alexievich's books if you feel like having a good cry.

>> No.9131867

Andrai Bely's Petersburg, all Tolstoy (esp. Anna K.), Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (much here about the early perils of anarchism, in a very entertaining context).

>> No.9131921

>>9131782
>Ilf and Petrov
>highly specific
>language-bound
Oй мyдaк.

>> No.9131935

>>9131729
fuck off, putin

>> No.9132088

>>9131818
Alexievich is not fiction though, and she is Belarusian

>> No.9132407

>>9131700
>>9131700
>>9131700

Andrei Platónov - The Foundation Pit
Andrei Platónov - Dzhan

Go read them, what are you waiting for

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Anyone read this?
Also known as "the book Orwell tried to steal everything from".

I don't think that's a fair statement, but after reading it my views on Huxley's Brave New World and 1984 were ... different.

>> No.9132870

>>9131729
>Russian fiction
Well, at least you're right about the category.

>> No.9132899
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>>9131707
indeed we must

>> No.9132920

>>9131776
Doßtoiyewskij.

>> No.9132943

>>9131776
The correct pronunciation is Does-Two-Yeff-Skee by the way.

>> No.9133081

>>9132943
no it's
dah-stew-oo-skewy

>> No.9133103

>>9132431

We, 1984, and Brave New World all revolve around the same basic conceit: what happens when a single overriding ideology takes over society. The key difference is in the ideology each anticipated. We is basically Taylorism triumphant everything and everyone anyone does has been planned, scheduled, optimized, and mapped. Brave New World is utilitarianism, everyone is made to be happy and content in their place. 1984 is totalitarianism stripped of everything but what Orwell saw as the key features of totalitarian ideologies.

You can also see this in the counter-current: In We it's nature itself, and the author's connection to the people still living there. In Huxley it's basically misfits; the factory rejects of humanity and the high powered prototypes. 1984, (Orwell being the old socialist he was) it's the people themselves. "If there is hope it lies in the proles".

The three are all starkly different books, with equally different beliefs at their core.

>> No.9133114

>>9132088
She writes about Russia in Russian, close enough.

>> No.9133117

>>9131793
Why do you think so? I stopped reading after 100 pages because it seemed to me like a slow satire.

>> No.9133143

>>9133103
Great analysis. I get where people say Orwell stolen from it. Probably because he did read We a long time before it was published in russia, and made an article about it (not sure about this).

Another thing that's very different IMO, is that We has a dark sense of humour that the others don't.

And also, the main character goes from full acceptance of his society to "not-so-sure" rejection.

They are all good reads, I think.

>> No.9133183

>>9131921
пиздyй oбpaтнo нa хapкaч, oлькa, никoмy тyт твoя coвкoвaя зaлyпa нe интepecнa

>> No.9133191

What makes the Russians fucking top tier at literature?

Seriously, they doninated 19th century lit with top quality artists and the 20th century lit would be nothing without them

(and Flaubert)

>> No.9133222

>>9132943
>>9133081
>not doo-stah-jeff-sky

>> No.9133230

>>9132920
Tolstoievski

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>>9133222
>Dostoy and Tolstoevskiy

>> No.9133461

Petersburg by Andrei Bely
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostomemesky
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years - Chingiz Aitmatov

>> No.9133472

>>9132899
>Douglas Adams tier humor

>> No.9133475

Why the FUCK does nobody ever mention Kolyma Tales in these threads?

>> No.9133484

>>9133191
>What makes the Russians fucking top tier at literature?
Constant suffering and Mysterious Russian Soul(tm).

>> No.9133496

A Hero of Our Time
Hadji Murat
Life and Fate

>> No.9133677

>>9133472
only the soybeans line is even close to douglas adams

>> No.9133730

>>9133484
I am looking forward to the first Russian Literary Soul who's life was cut short by Krokodil

>> No.9133741

>>9133730
What if not life but a leg cut short?

>> No.9133839

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Petersburg
3. The Foundation Pit

glad to see my niggas Bely and Platonov getting some love

>> No.9133894
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I: Master and Margarita - Mikhail
Bulgakov
II: The Death of Ivan Illych - Tolstoy
III. Dead Souls by Gogol

>> No.9133897

>>9133894

Also honourable mention is due to 'The Duel' and 'The Princess' by my main nigga Chekov

>> No.9133974

>>9133894
lol
"I would prefer not to". This book is awesome.

>> No.9134003

>>9133839
We have nearly the same list. Still gotta read the Foundation Pit yet. It's on my backlog

>> No.9134065

>>9133741
As long as the russian is thoroughly suffering, and creates good literature, he can have rotted away and use a straw to type for all I care.

>> No.9134077

>>9133191
Well, Flaubert is a 19th century writer.