/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8747343]

I need a recommendation /lit/

gf is final year Russian student and has a pretty extensive knowledge of Russian literature, something that I don't really know that much about. Christmas is coming up and I want to get her some really good but obscure Russian literature, but I don't really know where to start.

Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.8747350]

>>8747343
Tolstoevsky

[Anonymous No.8747351]

you think you will impress her but theres a better chance at making it obvious how little you know about the subject

[Anonymous No.8747353]

Vodka and a Putin poster

[Anonymous No.8747359]

>>8747343
If you have acess to people in russia you can take any other girl here, foreigners in russia have many attention by russian girl and dont need stop in only one girl from here. All tan whores you know it. Foreignes in russia have special respect. It's my main recommendation to you.

You can read in russian? Many good obscure literature have only in russian language

[Anonymous No.8747364]

>>8747351
I'm not really trying to impress her, just think it would be a nice gesture

[Anonymous No.8747365]

>>8747343

How obscure? Name some lesser-known Russian lit she owns or talks about

[Anonymous No.8747369]

Why less-known? Get her a nice, hardcover copy of Brothers Karamazov or the-like. Maybe Bely's Petersburg if you want something a bit different. But stick to the classics unless you actually know what she likes. No student of Russian will toss out a quality edition of War and Peace.

[Anonymous No.8747374]

>>8747369
In Russian, obviously. Get her a book with the text in RUSSIAN.

[Anonymous No.8747385]

>>8747369
>>8747374

That's a good shout. I mean, I know a couple of things she likes, like Anna Achmatova and Yevgeny Zamyatin, don't think she thinks much of Dosty

[Anonymous No.8747391]

>>8747385
>don't think she thinks much of Dosty

you have a stupid bitch of a girlfriend, is she hot atleast?

[Anonymous No.8747392]

>>8747391
Dosty is fucking pleb garbage and regarded as such in the Russia literary canon

[Anonymous No.8747393]

Пpocтo выeби eё, oчeвиднo жe.

[Anonymous No.8747411]

>>8747392

Dostoyevsky isn't more prominent in the Russian literary consciousness because of decades of Soviet hegemony, which opposed him because of his opposition to its eventual ascendancy. Fortunately the rest of the world recognized his merits

[Anonymous No.8747418]

>>8747411
>>8747392
>>8747391
Actually just found out it's tolstoy she's not a huge fan of. I mixed it up– she likes Dosty and isn't a huge fan of Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.8747440]

>>8747343

Post pics of her bookshelf

[Anonymous No.8747599]

>>8747418
That makes it worse

[Anonymous No.8747614]

>>8747599
Tolstoy is bad, my dude

[Anonymous No.8747616]

Get her Petersburg, the novel

[Anonymous No.8747621]

>>8747343
Andrei Bely probably would be fun for her.

[Anonymous No.8747623]

>>8747343
Get her Oпaвшиe Лиcтья

[Anonymous No.8747626]

>>8747623
By Rozanov

[Anonymous No.8747627]

Viktor Pelevin? Danill Kharms? Don't know how obscure they're considered tho.

[Anonymous No.8747647]

Complete edition of Daria Dontzova books is your choice.

[Anonymous No.8747661]

>>8747343
How much money are you planning to spend? (pic is 120 dallars)

[Anonymous No.8747673]

-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
-Yuri Mamleev
-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

[Anonymous No.8747679]

>>8747673
How many shit i see

[Anonymous No.8747694]

>>8747679
Who specifically do you think is shit

[Anonymous No.8747807]

>>8747343
I hear Vladimir Nabokov is p obscure

[Anonymous No.8747813]

>>8747343
just buy her a nice copy of a book you already know she likes

[Anonymous No.8747823]

>>8747673
Thank you, yeah I know she loves Akhmatova

[Anonymous No.8747826]

>>8747661
Oh shit that's nice. Do you have a link?

[Anonymous No.8747830]

>>8747823
if she loves Akhmatova, give her some Madelstam, or a copy of Nadezhda Madelstam's memoirs

[Anonymous No.8747836]

>>8747823
You've mentioned her twice now, maybe you should get her a nice edition of her poetry.

[Anonymous No.8748698]

Get her something by Papa Dugin.

[Anonymous No.8748715]

>>8747350
this desu.
Any real Russian academic would appreciate a nice first edition copy of The Brothers Karenina

[Anonymous No.8748802]

>>8747343
All the trolls aside, OP, you can't go wrong with:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Soviet-Fiction-Sixteen-Stories/dp/0896598810

16 Soviet story writers catching the exact moment it all fell down. Tatianna Tolstaya is the giant of the bunch. Yes, she's related. Fire and Dust will be anthologized for decades. She'll appreciate owning this.

[Anonymous No.8749230]

Definitely Bely's Petersburg

[Anonymous No.8749442]

Recently read a collection of young russian authors in german, so no idea if you'd ever find those in english but I liked Alissa Ganiyeva,Valeri Pecheykin and Polina Klyukina the most. Other than that, something by Venedikt Yerofeev or Limonov wouldn't hurt either

[Anonymous No.8749451]

>>8749442
Forgot about Gelasimov and Babchenko

[Anonymous No.8749461]

>>8747418
Is she /our guy/?

[Anonymous No.8749522]

>>8747614

deez fucking nuts. Tolstoy is fucking epic:

>Hadji Murad
>War and Peace
>Anna Karenina
>Ivan Ilych
>The Kreutzer Sonata
>...

[Anonymous No.8749541]

[Anonymous No.8749852]

Yuri Mamleev seconded.