Russian Literature

This is really just a "fan page." I have enjoyed Russian literature over the years and made this page mainly for self reference. I am certainly not a scholar in this field nor do I know how to read or speak Russian.

Authors & Works I have Read

• Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales. Edited by Zenkovsky
  • Decent of Mary into Hell (favorite)
  • Various others
• Krylov (1768-1844)
  • Fables (various)
• Gogol (1809-1852)
  • Dead Souls
  • Stories: The Nose, The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman
  • Regarding "The Nose" see: Nose statue stollen, nose statue found, a song inspired by The Nose!
• Lermontov (1814-1841)
  • A Hero of Our Time
• Turgenev (1818-1883)
  • Fathers and Sons
• Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
  • Notes from Underground
  • The Double
  • Crime & Punishment
  • The Possessed
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • The Idiot
    • Hans Holbein's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
    • On the Threshold of Representation: The Function of the Holbein Christ in The Idiot by Barbara Fister
  • Stories: The Dearm of a Ridiculous Man, ...
  • Dairy of a Writer: bits.
• Chernyshevsky (1828-1889)
  • What is to be Done? (7/4/08)
• Tolstoy (1828-1910)
  • War & Peace (Done !!! 08/28/06)
  • Anna Karenina
  • Resurrection
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Essays: Education, Shakespeare
  • Stories: The Snow Storm, Three deaths, ...
• Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895)
  • Stores: The Steel Fea, Journey with a Nihilist,...; from collection translated by Willian Edgerton.
• Chekhov (1860-1904)
  • Stores: The Kiss, Ward No. 6, My Life (favorite), others.
  • Plays read:
  • Plays seen: Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard(?)
• Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
  • Doctor Zhivago (watched the movie)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
  • The Master and Margarita (6/08)
• Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) Painting
  • Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi translated by Stanley Kunitz, and Max Hayward
• Nabokov (1899-1977)
  • Lolita
  • Pnin
  • Invitation to a Beheading
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Obituary
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (7/08)

• Tolstoy by Henri Troyat (Very good. Highly recommended.)
• Nikolai Gogol by Nabokov (Interesting and amusing.)
• Pushkin: A Biography by Elaine Feinstein (Informative but not insightful.)
• History of Russian Literature by D.S. Mirsky (read parts)
• Dostoevsky and the Novel by Michael Holquist (Interesting, but not for the lay reader.)

• Gorky (Can't believe I haven't read him yet.)
• Babel (Have his Comeplete Works.)
• Pasternak (Watching the movie doesn't really count!)
• Pushkin (Just finishing E.F.'s bio. Will buy E.O. soon.)
• Alexander Herzen (I have Who is to Blame? Will read it evenually.)

• 19th-Century Russian Literature, by Professor Swensen of Brandeis University
• 19th Century Russian Literature by Paul Brians of Wash. State U.
• Old 1911 Encyclopedia article
• Slavic Review
• Russian Literature (journal)
• A book list
• A gay prospective on Russian literature
• Russia's Tsars
• Russian Art
• Great Russian Women. (No, it's not a dating site!) See:Anna Akhmatova.
• The Russian Alphabet
• Dostoevsky Research Station, by Christiaan Stange
• Pushkin Speech. Also see Google Books

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