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Does anyone here has a Russian chart? Or something about what to read from the Russians.

>> No.8653715

>>8653712
Fathers & Sons - Turgenyev

>> No.8653748
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Here you go

>> No.8653766

>>8653712
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Bulgakov are all entry level.

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>> No.8653782

>>8653766
Start with these as well as pushkin, Gogol and lermontov

>> No.8653785

Gogol
>"Dead Souls," trans. by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, rev. by Susanne Fusso
>"The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol," ed. by Leonard J. Kent (two volumes)

Turgenev
>"The Essential Turgenev," ed. by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen

Dostoevsky
>"Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)," trans. by Constance Garnett, George Bird, and David Magarshack
>"Crime and Punishment," trans. by Oliver Ready
>"The Idiot," trans. by Constance Garnett, rev. by Anna Brailovsky
>"The Devils," trans. by David Magarshack
>"The Brothers Karamazov," trans. by Constance Garnett, rev. by Ralph Matlaw (1976) and Susan McReynolds Oddo (2011)

Tolstoy
>"Collected Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library)," trans. by Louise and Alymer Maude (two volumes)
>"The Cossacks (Everyman's Library)," trans. by Louise and Alymer Maude
>"War and Peace (Everyman's Library)," trans. by Louise and Alymer Maude
>"Anna Karenina," trans. by Rosamund Bartlett

>> No.8653807

>>8653781
better quality please ? can't read anything here

>> No.8653829

>>8653782
Sadly there's no real point in reading Pushkin and Lermontov if you can't read them in Russian.

>> No.8653840

>>8653782
Then go to these:

-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

>> No.8653843

>>8653829
Tell that to Nabokov.

>> No.8653846

>>8653829
You could read their prose. I agree I wouldn't read their poetry in translation, especially pushkin.

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>nobody ever mentions Ivan Goncharov in russian literature threads
Why?

>> No.8653858

>>8653852
One hit wonder

>> No.8653934

>>8653807
See >>8653785

>> No.8653951

>>8653846
Pushkin amazes me.

How does somebody who spent half his life not knowing Russian become the greatest Russian poet?

>> No.8653955

>>8653840
>Vladimir Sorokin

Mah nigga. Day of the Oprichnik is great.

>> No.8653967

>>8653955
One of the only dystopian novels I like

>> No.8654041

>>8653951
He was born in Moscow and went to school near saint Petersburg, I'm pretty sure he knew Russian his while life.
His first verses were in French but that doesn't mean he didn't know and speak Russian.
Still amazing though.

>> No.8654063

>>8654041
Except the Russian nobility spoke French at the time. French was his birth language. Maybe half his life was an exaggeration but still he had to learn Russian.

>> No.8655735

>>8653951
Motherfucker what? He was raised by his nurse a lowly serf who only spoke Russian so of course he spoke Russian his whole life

>> No.8655751

>>8654063
you mistake literary language with everyday language. people didn't write in russian much but they certainly knew russian

>> No.8655896

>>8653712
Such a cute picture.

>> No.8655924

>>8653785
Why are you recommending Constance Garnett jesus christ

>> No.8655959

>>8653840
>-Yuri Mamleev
Ni ce
(Ha иc)

>-Zakhar Prilepin
Piece of shit every moment

(ГOB HO)

This list is very curious, very different authors, from really great to almost stupidest writers.

The best authors in this list is

-Andrei Bely (Andrew White, bely in russian - white)
-Venedikt Erofeev
-Daniil Kharms ( and Alexandr Vvedenskiy and other OБЭPИУ too)
-Nikolai Leskov
-Yuri Mamleev
-Osip Mandelstam
-Andrei (Andrew) Platonov
-Varlam Shalamov
-Fyodor Sologub

But more important writers and poets not mentioned, its sad.

This authors are:

Ilia Zdanevich !
Innokenty Annensky !! (Russian Mallarme is)
Anton Chekhov (Who knows every schoolchild)
Vladimir Odoyevsky !
Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)
Alexei Remizov
Velimir Khlebnikov (his name from the word bread)
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Victor Sosnora
Gennadiy Aygi

and many many many other very great writers

Sorry for my English im from Syberia, here full of bears and vodka now.

>> No.8655977

>>8655959
Do you drive lada?