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Russian Lit Fri Jan 20 04:30:28 2017 No.8998995 [Reply] [Original]

Where to start reading books by the Ruskies?
I'm tossing up between either Master and Margarita or Crime and Punishment.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 04:36:23 2017 No.8999002 Start with Bayan Shiryanov.

>>	Russian Lit Fri Jan 20 04:37:46 2017 No.8999007 >>8999002 http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5027034.Bayan_SHiryanov You yanking my chain, friend?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:28:41 2017 No.8999091 You could start with a smaller book like One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch or A hero of our time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:30:52 2017 No.8999093 >>8998995 You don't

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:33:05 2017 No.8999101 Start with Notes May as well skip the effort of reading and just go to church instead after that

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:40:55 2017 No.8999118

Start with Tolstoy's Confessions, then War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and finally to Master and Margarita and One Day, if you're feeling really ambitious the entire Gulag Archipelago.

You can also read the Idiot, Demons, Fathers and Sons as an added option and I highly recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:43:51 2017 No.8999125 >>8999091 I agree with this fellow. Also, you can't go wrong with a Tolstoy novella like the Cossacks or the Death of Ivan Illych, very accessible stuff

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:47:27 2017 No.8999132 >>8998995 The Overcoat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 05:52:29 2017 No.8999143 >>8999007 He's the best. There must be translations somewhere.

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 06:05:39 2017 No.8999158

>>8999091
Good advice. I am Russian. Imho Dostoevsky and Tolstoy too boring. Add to list.
Nikolai Gogol’s "The Nose" and "The Overcoat"
Good short life stories Chekhov wrote, you can start with not too short "Ward No. 6".
"How the Steel Was Tempered" Nikolai Ostrovsky
"Tale of a True Man" Boris Polevoy
Among contemporary writers good Pelevin with his "Hermit and Six-fingered" or "Yellow arrow"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 06:38:34 2017 No.8999224 >>8998995 you start with Tolstoy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 07:10:16 2017 No.8999299 >>8998995 The overcoat, by Gogol >Short >Tragicomic >Gives you a true glance of russian writing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 10:07:46 2017 No.8999731 File: 51 KB, 437x264, Screen Shot 2016-12-09 at 3.40.16 am.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8999125 Thanks mate, went with the Death of Ivan Illych

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 10:10:43 2017 No.8999742 File: 11 KB, 211x246, fug.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8999158 >ooh some actually good advice.. >Pelevin kys

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 17:20:29 2017 No.9001088 The best is Turgenev's "Diary of a Hunter" (or whatever, there are different translations with different names)

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