Russian literature

[Anonymous No.8621544]

Let's discuss the topic

[Anonymous No.8621563]

I hear a lot of Bakhtin stuff is about to be translated/published in English for the first time?

[Anonymous No.8621569]

>>8621563
Really? That's great for you. Are they translating all volumes, and if so, are they translating Losev?

[Anonymous No.8621572]

>>8621544

Bely is probably the best obscure Russian writer ever. Petersburg was really cool to read.

[Anonymous No.8621609]

>>8621563

Bakhtin's Collected Works is a long time project in Russia, which seems to be finished (or almost? Holquist 2001 talks of 7 vols, wiki says 6 vols from 1996-2012, so maybe one more to come?). Holquist says that they will be translated into English by the University of Texas, but who knows.

All in all, his most essential writings have been long translated, so there probably won't be anything too interesting for others than Bakhtin scholars.

[Anonymous No.8621610]

Daniil Charms is a treat, pure literary slapstick. Most of his work is kind of hard to obtain in German, from what I've seen.

[Anonymous No.8621672]

Where do I start with Pushkin?

[Anonymous No.8621710]

>>8621544
>mfw I realise that the CPSU was originally called the Social Democratic Party
>Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were literally Social Democrats

[Anonymous No.8621714]

>>8621544
nah

[Anonymous No.8621757]

>>8621710
>mfw Hitler was literally a socialist

[Anonymous No.8621765]

>>8621710
And Mussolini's party was the socialist party

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.8621860]

about the modern russian literature, i'm reading roman shmarakov's "calliope, the tree, korisk" right now and it's completely adorable, easy the best modern russian book (it's written in 2012) i have read in a while. it's written in a kind of flowery language though and is filled with quotes and allusions. i will give some clumsily translated by me random examples, for instance: "mr. pirckheimer thoughtfully strolling along the shipyard quotes: 'labitur uncta vadis abies'. the devil sniffs flattening his ears of pleasure and notes that the smoke of the fatherland is still not devoid of refreshing" - a quote from "aeneid" ("the oiled fir-wood glides through the waters", the devil likely was pleased by the smell of pitch) and the "smoke of fatherland" allusion to "woe from wit", leaving aside the question what [willibald] pirckheimer is supposed to mean here

its two main heroes - the narrator and his friend,as well as the addressee of the narrator (the book is an epistolary novel where the narrator relates a story of the past to a third person), they are very learned latinists (seems of the early 20th century england or europe) and behave pretty eccentric. the hero and his friend got trapped in a haunted house and while they try to cope with what they meet (a specter of the host who invited them, aggressive silver utensils, extinct flora and fauna in the greenhouse etc) they discuss it all using their knowledge of the ancient authors, illustrate their thoughts (to each other and to the addressee) with different unrelated stories ("three days later, when a cat, spending the night in the ill-fated room, jumped out of the window and stuck between the branches (her cries, as it is rightly noted by naturalists, resemble to an experienced ear the cries of oriole, with the difference that the orioles sometimes stop), everybody got confident that their thrush once strayed from the flock of those unfortunate birds, of which tennyson says: 'once in an hour they cried, and whenever their voices peal’d the steer fell down at the plow and the harvest died from the field'", my favorite one though it's about a maid, a village girl, a "rustic comet" who was scared by the same star animals underfoot as the horses of phaeton were scared), argue by public speaking addressing to imaginary "ghost fathers" and to heads of stuffed animals ("what have you lied them about the elk? that said no elk, but arellius fuscus"), discuss how to christen an improvised ram which they make ("...we all know that the same word for a battering ram, aries, the ancients used to name some sea monster, more fierce and strange than others, so pliny in the ninth book of "the natural history" says that they attack fishing boats by approaching them from below...") etc.

it may sound as an abstruse book, but it is very cutely written

[Anonymous No.8621929]

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[Anonymous No.8622684]

Anyone into Nikolay Berdyaev? "Self-knowledge" is such a powerful essay. It's religious existentialism in the same vein as Tolstoy's "The Confession", various references to Dostoevsky and Ibsen

[Anonymous No.8622766]

>>8621672
The Captain's Daughter

or

The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

[Anonymous No.8623196]

>>8621672
Eugene Onegin

[Anonymous No.8624557]

Is it hard to read war and peace?

[Anonymous No.8625838]

>>8624557

No, it's just long.

[Anonymous No.8625842]

Pic related is a strong contender for GOAT poet