How do I start Russian literature?
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How do I start Russian literature?
10 Books to Introduce You to Russian Literature
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov.
- Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin.
- Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol.
- We by Evgeny Zamyatin.
- Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev.
- Short Stories by Anton Chekhov.
Who is Russian novelist?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever.
What Russian literature should I read?
10 Russian Novels to Read Before You Die
- Eugene Onegin. by Alexander Pushkin.
- A Hero of Our Time. by Mikhail Lermontov.
- Fathers and Sons. by Ivan Turgenev.
- The Brothers Karamazov. by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Doctor Zhivago. by Boris Pasternak.
- And Quiet Flows the Don.
- Life and Fate.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
What is Western literature?
“Western literature” is a broad term that refers to a vast body of literature from ancient times to present day in the Indo-European family of languages — including English, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian — whose common literary heritage originates in ancient Greece and Rome.
What are the characteristics of old Russian literature?
Old Russian literature consists of several masterpieces written in the Old East Slavic (i.e. the language of Kievan Rus’, not to be confused with the contemporaneous Church Slavonic nor with modern Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian). The main type of Old Russian historical literature were chronicles, most of them anonymous.
What are the most popular genres in Russian literature?
Detective stories and thrillers have proven a very successful genre of new Russian literature: in the 1990s serial detective novels by Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova and Darya Dontsova were published in millions of copies.
What happened to Russian literature after the Russian Revolution?
After the Revolution of 1917, Russian literature split into Soviet and white émigré parts. While the Soviet Union assured universal literacy and a highly developed book printing industry, it also enforced ideological censorship. In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia.