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Russian literature.

I'm in awe of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I've also read Crime and Punishment.

Recommend other great Russian authors.

>> No.1875690

>>1875689

Any book in particular?

>> No.1875689

Chekhov

>> No.1875694

>>1875690
He wrote short stories mostly. There are lots of good collections of his stories.

>> No.1875696

If you want to read in any sort of depth I advise Pushkin next

>> No.1875697

Tolstool
Solzhynsynnsytyn

>> No.1875702

>>1875696

Dosto liked Pushkin. Any particular book?

>> No.1875706
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1875706

all the obvious ones plus,

Saltykov-Shchedrin- The Golovlyov Family (1876), should appeal if you like Dostoevsky.

>> No.1875712

>>1875706

They're only obvious if you know them already. If I did, I'd not ask.

>> No.1875716

>>1875702
The Little Tragedies (there's a great version on Bookz) are brilliant drama and help with other Russian authors like Bulgakov
Eugene Onegin is his main work but I've never read it so I can't comment

>> No.1875719

Bulgakov, Mayakovsky, Yevtushenko, Turgenev

>> No.1875726

>>1875696
Protip: Pushkin is very difficult to translate into English, or any other language for that matter. Don't read Pushkin.

>> No.1875728

Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don" is one of my favorite books ever.

>> No.1875779

Vassilly Grossman, War and Fate

I just started it, about 100 pages in; brilliant; about the battle of Stalingrad.

Think war and peace + world war ii + chekhov's humanism

>> No.1875799

>>1875779
I really want to read Grossman. Beevor quotes him a lot in his books.

"Vassily Grossman,who was returning to the 1st Belorussian front from Moscow, came via Zhukov's rear headquarters at Landsberg. 'Children are playing solidiers on a flat roof' he wrote in his notebook. 'This is at the very moment when German imperialism is being finished in Berlin, and here the boys with wooden swords and clubs and long legs, and blond fringes and their hairt cut short at the back of the head are shouting,jumping,leaping and stabbing at one another...it's eternal. It can never be eliminated from mankind'. But this pessimistic mood did not last long.He found Brandenburg bathed in sunshine, and was struck by the dachas closer to Berlin. 'Everything,' he noted, 'is covered with flowers,tulips,lilac,apple trees,plum trees. The birds are singing:Nature feels no pity for the last days of fascism."

>> No.1875810

(fee-otter mi-kyle-ov daw-stoy-ev-skee)

Am I pronouncing it right?

>> No.1875826

> dostoevsky
> good

hahahahaha

Read Tolstoy, Pushkin and Chekhov.

>> No.1875829

>>1875810

Not even close, broskiy.

>> No.1875834

solzhenitsyn is a pretty cool guy

>> No.1875842

>>1875834
He go prison camp and isn't afraid of anything.

>> No.1875844

I like MikahIl Bulgakov a lot.

The Heart of a Dog and The Master and Margarita are just fantastic.

>> No.1875859

I'mma let you finish, Tolstoy, but Proust wrote the best novel of all time-- all time!

french literature appreciation thread starts now.

>> No.1875879

>>1875859

Ballsack>Toystory
Mopissant>Turdenev
Rimjob>Tushkin

>> No.1875880

>>1875879

what about cocktoe

>> No.1875895

>>1875880

Cocktoe>Vulvakov

>> No.1875917

Rabelass>PusSkin

>> No.1875923

>>1875917
>>1875895
>>1875879


this is all accurate.

>> No.1875957

DON'T YOU GO INSULTING THE RUSSIAN AUTHORS ANON. IT ISN'T NICE.

>> No.1876146

>>1875879
No.

Don't be stupid. Balzac is not good.

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1876149

Am I doing it right?

>> No.1876152

Pushkin
Chekhov
Tolstoy
Turgenev
Solzhenitsyn
Zamyatin
Bulgakov
Nabokov
Gogol
Pasternak

>> No.1876155

>>1876149
yes but you think not. the real joke's on you

>> No.1876953

pushkin is a homo

>> No.1876956

>>1876149
>he doesn't know that ayn rand actually is russian lit
inb4 hurr durr she didnt live in russia

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>>1875686

Bitches don't know about 'Moscow Stations' by Venedikt Erofeev. He lived the Russian dream.

>> No.1876960

>>1876957
HAD IT ON MY TO-READ LIST FOR AGES, BUT CONSIDERING HOW MODERN IT IS, IT'S GOING TO BE YEARS BEFORE I READ IT.

>> No.1876975

>>1876960

The Stephen Mulrine translation (which is considered the best) is pretty difficult to find here in the UK. Faber and Faber don't seem to be considering a reprint either.

Luckily, I managed to find a copy, of the edition in the picture, on ebay fom a bookshop which probably didn't realise what they had as it was only £10. The only online places that had it were charging anywhere from £30 to £60. Awesome read though.

>> No.1876976

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

>> No.1876988

>>1876976
YES, THIS

>> No.1877002

ITT: morons and a particular case of unreformable retard not realising op's pic is aleksandr solzhenitsyn

>> No.1877065

Gogol (Dead Souls, The Government Inspector)
Chekhov
Ilf and Petrov (The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf)
Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)

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>> No.1877093

>>1877072
OH GOD IT'S HORRIFYING