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As a professed Connoisseur of Russian Literature, I can definitively state that the most Authentic way to read Crime & Punishment is in a cold sweat, over a period of 48 hours, without sleeping, desperately hiding the book under desks and other textbooks hoping you won’t be caught reading it in your other classes, blowing off plans with friends and family without admitting that you procrastinated reading this book, in an increasingly mounting state of panic about failing your upcoming timed writing about this book that YOU STILL HAVEN’T FINISHED AND IT’S NEXT PERIOD OH GOD WHY. There are themes in that book that won’t fully emerge unless you do exactly that.
Totally unrelated question: Do you ever just have flashbacks to high school?
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russian literature: a summary
ivan ivanovich ivanov is an upper middle class student who is madly in love with maria petrovna petrova! BUT maria petrovna petrova loves dmitri dmitrivich dmitrov who is a nihilist upper middle class student!
ivan ivanovich ivanov goes through a long soul searching journey before realizing all life is petty and meaningless and eventually dying alone and unloved of tuberculosis while dmitri dmitrivich dmitrov marries maria petrovna petrova
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“i did like it that a lot of the characters died. i guess i was into the drama.”
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russian literature: a summary
ivan ivanovich ivanov is an upper middle class student who is madly in love with maria petrovna petrova! BUT maria petrovna petrova loves dmitri dmitrivich dmitrov who is a nihilist upper middle class student!
ivan ivanovich ivanov goes through a long soul searching journey before realizing all life is petty and meaningless and eventually dying alone and unloved of tuberculosis while dmitri dmitrivich dmitrov marries maria petrovna petrova
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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
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It’s Very Cold Out And Love Does Not Exist Also
From Every Russian Novel Ever. (via publishersweekly)
"Unhappy in Their Own Ways"—an infographic of Russian Literature. See more and view larger at the New York Times.
Source: The New York Times
Anonymous asked:
I'm interested in Russian literature and The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov pops up from time to time as the first to start with do you recommend this book? If not what should I start with?
I’ve actually never heard of this book, though Wikipedia informs me that “Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires.”
So it sounds like a book that I personally might enjoy reading, but I have no clue where that puts it in terms of “essential Russian literature,” particularly since I know so little about Russian lit, when I think about it, I only really think about stuff by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy (and Chekhov, to a lesser extent).
My instinct is to tell you to start with whatever you feel like starting with, but I know that the idea of “starting with” something is in place so that you don’t start by reading something so complex that it becomes so frustrating and tedious that you stop reading it.
So I don’t know. Maybe you have a teacher or professor that knows. Or maybe someone can reply to this post to either qualify or shoot down the suggestion that this book by Bulgakov is a good start or suggest something else to start with.
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Baby’s First War & Peace
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Russian poets are actually woodland creatures.
Literature, The Evergreen State College
