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7386885 No.7386885 [Reply] [Original]

How do I into the Russians? i.e which of these is more essential than every other essential

>> No.7386889

the 19th century is vastly more essential. you can't really disregard many of the authors there even if you're going for the essentialest of the essential.

i would say maybe ditch chekhov but i might get lynched

>> No.7386894

>>7386889
Turgenev is less essential than Chekhov, and I love Turgenev.

>> No.7386901

>>7386885
Start from the top and work you way down. When you're done, here are some others to check out (some duplicates from the chart):

-Anna Akhmatova
-Vasily Aksyonov
-Leonid Andreyev
-Mikhail Artsybashev
-Isaac Babel
-Andrei Bely
-Andrei Bitov
-Ivan Bunin
-Lydia Chukovskaya
-Sergei Dovlatov
-Venedikt Erofeev
-Afanasy Fet
-Vsevolod Garshin
-Aleksander Griboyedov
-Vasily Grossman
-Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
-Daniil Kharms
-Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
-Mikhail Kuzmin
-Nikolai Leskov
-Vladimir Makanin
-Osip Mandelstam
-Vladimir Mayakovsky
-Yury Olesha
-Nikolai Ostrovsky
-Victor Pelevin
-Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
-Boris Pilnyak
-Andrei Platonov
-Zakhar Prilepin
-Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
-Victor Serge
-Varlam Shalamov
-Mikhail Sholokhov
-Fyodor Sologub
-Vladimir Sorokin
-Tatyana Tolstaya
-Lyudmila Ulitskaya
-Mikhail Zoshchenko

>> No.7386902

>>7386894
i emphatically disagree and i would go so far as to say that the minor turgenev works are worth more than chekhov

>> No.7386903
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7386903

Start with the Greeks to be honest family.

>> No.7386923

>>7386885
war and peace to be honest

>> No.7386994

>>7386885
Read Lermontov and Gogol first.
Then Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Pushkin

>> No.7387007
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7387007

>>7386994
>read gogol and lermontov before pushkin

>> No.7387019

If you understand Daniil Kharms then you'll understand Russia. So take a guess which of them is the most essential.

>> No.7387029

>>7386901
This is a great and useful list but it's exactly the opposite of what was asked.

>> No.7387035

>>7386889
>ditch Chekhov
Nigga you better back the fuck up before you get smacked the fuck up

>> No.7387047

>>7387029
If you are just going to pick one author, go with Dostoevsky like everyone else.

>> No.7387056
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7387056

Where the fuck is Karamzin? And Radischev? And Goncharov? This list is a sick joke, pidorasy ebanye.

>> No.7387066

>>7387056
goncharov is 4th in the image you aspie

>> No.7387091

>>7387066
The other Goncharov, you western degenerate. Every fucking schoolkid has read Oblomov. Do you even speak russian?