Anyone have a fancy for Russian literature? I can’t get enough of it. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov changed my life. The Idiot left me bawling my eyes out. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a tragic love story. Levin is one of the most well-developed characters ever created. I just finished The Master and Margarita, set in Communist Russia, about Satan and his entourage’s (including a black tomcat named Behemoth) detour in Moscow. And I’m about to start on Dead Souls by Gogol.
I never really got into Nabakov, but that may change in the future.
Anyone else have a love for Russian literature? It’s difficult to explain the allure: the characters have a place in the world, the love is deeper, the atmosphere is richer. You can get lost in another world and another time.
you are way too inteligent…but i admire your inteligence…
i used to read a long time ago…but mostly fictional tales…i miss it.
take care from the and the bug.
@Twang I have Chekhov’s Short Stories but I’ve never gotten around to it. You’ll have to point out a good one for me to start on.
@darksith I appreciate it! Russian literature is nothing too difficult, though. It’s about life — loves, friendships, miseries, joys. It goes deeper, though, and usually the author provides some underlying meaning about life and existence: the inevitability of death, nihilism (Dostoevsky) or the existence of God (Tolstoy). Most of the best Russian literature took place during a period of upheaval: traditional morality and religion were being overturned and the aristocracy and tsarism were being replaced by a more modern society. In a sense, you get a chance to preview both worlds: past and present / future.
you just proved my point…you are way too inteligent…making a sandwich is as about as deep as i go these days…!?!
but hey, i am perfecting the triple layered sandwich…!?!..well, me and the bug.
take care from the sane
I’ve read “Crime and Punishment”, “The Brothers Karamazov”, and “Notes from Underground”. When I read “Notes from Underground” I was thinking - why do I care about this character in any way at all? But I did care. I found it a haunting book. In “Crime and Punishment” I felt Raskolnikov’s angst and guilt. I’ve read “The Brothers Karamazov” five times, and I’ll probably read it five more. I haven’t read many other Russian writers, though. Just Dostoyevsky.
The Brothers Karamazov is, in my opinion, the greatest book ever written. Dostoevsky is a master. Ilyusha was apparently modeled after the death of Dostoevsky’s own son. I loved Ivan’s poem of the Grand Inquisitor. I read Notes from the Underground a while ago. I had started on Crime and Punishment but never got around to finishing it. I will have to one of these days.
I started off with Dostoevsky during an Existential phase in my life and was so fascinated with the portrait of pre-modern Russia that I moved to Tolstoy and some of the other Russian novelists.
i just had to usher my bug into another room, luckily he did not get to read that…
wait i think he could be hyper-ventilating…"don’t listen bug pob did not mean it ! "
take care from the sane and the traumatised bug.
don’t worry bug had a lavender tea and is watching ’ vikings ’ the series on t.v '. bug sends you a hug.
take care from the sane and ’ less ’ traumatised bug.
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