Best Russian Literature
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classic, fiction, location, russia, and russian
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by Daniil Kharms, Matvei Yankelevich (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Here lies a difficult task, just how can one grade these one above another. I give the one's I have selected all joint first and would wish to re-read them all.
Oops! I clicked a wrong work by mistake, Timon of Athens. I deleted it from my votes but it's still showing on the main list with zero votes. Is there any way of removing it entirely? Help!
Lolita isn't really Russian if it was first written in English...right?
I guess it qualifies because Nabokov was Russian, but I'm still hesitant to call it "Russian".
David wrote: "Lolita isn't really Russian if it was first written in English...right?I guess it qualifies because Nabokov was Russian, but I'm still hesitant to call it "Russian"."
You're right at large, David - originally it was written in English, BUT "Lolita" can be treated as "Russian" not because Nabokov was Russian, but because he, Nabokov "translated" himself the novel into Russian. In the case when a writer "transalates" his own book into his own native language it's safe to say the book was written twice in 2 languages. We read this "translation" here.(by the way "Lolita" was THE ONLY English novel of him which he "translated" into Russian himself. It shall be clear that he couldn't have any hope whatsoever at his time that this book will ever be published in his homeland)
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