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The Master and Margarita
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Anna Karenina
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The Brothers Karamazov
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War and Peace
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Lolita
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The Idiot
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Eugene Onegin
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Solaris
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Fathers and Sons
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Heart of Darkness
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The Street of Crocodiles
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Oblomov
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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Ferdydurke
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A Hero of Our Time
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The Metamorphosis
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Doctor Zhivago
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The Doll
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The Twelve Chairs
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Death and the Dervish
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.69 avg rating — 44,737 ratings
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Heart of a Dog
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4.08 avg rating — 70,435 ratings
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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The Teutonic Knights
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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Milena: & Other Social Reforms
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The Inspector General
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War with the Newts
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Demons
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Dead Souls
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3.98 avg rating — 94,861 ratings
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Quo Vadis
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Tango
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3.86 avg rating — 17,934 ratings
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I Served the King of England
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4.06 avg rating — 10,205 ratings
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The Overcoat
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4.15 avg rating — 50,248 ratings
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Imperium
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4.36 avg rating — 7,711 ratings
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Pan Tadeusz
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Too Loud a Solitude
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3.97 avg rating — 25,756 ratings
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Железният светилник
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4.48 avg rating — 9,381 ratings
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Notes from the Underground
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4.17 avg rating — 219,221 ratings
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Die Nase
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3.71 avg rating — 17,318 ratings
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The Echoed Realm (The Chaos Cycle Duology, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Closely Watched Trains
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3.72 avg rating — 12,743 ratings
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Taras Bulba
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3.73 avg rating — 14,308 ratings
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Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch
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4.14 avg rating — 214,205 ratings
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The Wedding
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3.15 avg rating — 19,311 ratings
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Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie
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4.30 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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The Issa Valley
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3.85 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Cancer Ward
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4.26 avg rating — 17,410 ratings
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Under the Yoke
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4.25 avg rating — 8,565 ratings
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Petersburg
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Peter the First
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4.17 avg rating — 2,362 ratings
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The Pianist
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4.25 avg rating — 80,159 ratings
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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4.13 avg rating — 3,553 ratings
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Death and the Penguin
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3.78 avg rating — 21,815 ratings
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Тютюн
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4.43 avg rating — 8,149 ratings
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Місто
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4.33 avg rating — 5,726 ratings
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A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
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3.76 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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Alamut
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4.31 avg rating — 13,385 ratings
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The Joke
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4.03 avg rating — 40,038 ratings
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Panny z Wilka
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3.66 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
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3.87 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Das Buch vom Lachen und Vergessen
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3.95 avg rating — 53,737 ratings
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Хайка за вълци
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Bieguni
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3.75 avg rating — 36,976 ratings
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Final Meeting: Selected Poetry
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4.13 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
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3.63 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
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Солодка Даруся
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R.U.R.
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The Fortress
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Die Kreutzersonate
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Widnokrąg
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
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Spring Torrents
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Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
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Физика на тъгата
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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Engineer of Human Souls
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Notes of a Pug-Nosed Mephistopheles
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Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
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Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки
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Die Unsterblichkeit
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The Viy
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću
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Le Golem
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Princess Ivona
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Auferstehung. Roman.
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Kobzar
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Поезия
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Evening
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Ruslan and Ludmila
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The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories
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Jan 17, 2012 05:09PM
This list needs some Southern Slavic authors though.
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Lucky Teapot Give us some titles then:)
Yoanna wrote: "Lucky Teapot Give us some titles then:)"I would if I knew any, I don't think I've ever read any Southern Slavic authors. Just pointed out the obvious.
I would if I knew any, I don't think I've ever read any Southern Slavic authors. Just pointed out the obvious."Well, it may be obvious but if none of us knows any of these authors we cannot recommend them for "Crash" Course. Isn't this obvious ?
Yoanna wrote: "I would if I knew any, I don't think I've ever read any Southern Slavic authors. Just pointed out the obvious."Well, it may be obvious but if none of us knows any of these authors we cannot recom..."
No, it isn't :). You'd think people who were interested in Slavic lit wouldn't want to limit themselves to the north. Hopefully my comment will prompt someone to add Southern authors. No need to take it as criticism.
Lucky Teapot: I didn't take it as a criticism:) On the contrary, I admit you have a point there. Just a little provocation:) Let me know if you find something interesting from South. Good luck.
I took over, guys. Now there's a few southeastern ones.
Ivo Andric, Mesa Selimovic, Dervis Susic, Radoje Domanovic, Milos Crnjanski, Danilo Kis, Miljenko Jergovic, Miroslav Krleza, Ranko Marinkovic, August Senoa.....
Just wondering: Lolita is considered one of the finest works of English language literature, can we really consider it 'Slavic' based on the author's birth place?
*looks at the tags* Czech, Russian, Polish? *goes to add the rest*eta: I got bored and didn't add all slavs.
How are Kafka's works Slavic? He was born in Prague but he was Jewish and wrote in German and as far as I know, his writing doesn't owe any particularities to Slavic literary tradition, AND Prague was at the time in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
I added some South Slavic (Bulgarian) books.
Yoanna wrote: "Just wondering: Lolita is considered one of the finest works of English language literature, can we really consider it 'Slavic' based on the author's birth place?"Those who consider Lolita a fine work, consider Donald trump a fine president
Nilimesh wrote: "Yoanna wrote: "Just wondering: Lolita is considered one of the finest works of English language literature, can we really consider it 'Slavic' based on the author's birth place?"Those who conside..."
Those who think Lolita is pro-pedophilia can't read
Prus's Lalka (The Doll) is listed twice, once in Czech.
More like a "Crash Course in russian Literature" or "How to Become an Imperialist/Terrorist"
It's unbelievable how disproportionate and imperialistic this list is
There's really nothing Slavic about Conrad's literature.
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