Poll

Notes From a Dead House by Dostoyevsky.

Calligraphy Lessons

The Master and Margarita

Hello all. How about Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy?

Ruslan and Lyudmila by Pushkin

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

I vote for Master and Margarita because it is so colorful and amazing and a hoot. I've read it once and really liked it and I have 2 versions so I'm definitely down for reading it again. It's so colorful.

Pavan wrote: "Hello all. How about Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy?"

Read it years ago. A bit of a snoozer. Sorry. Just sayin.

Nina wrote: "The Master and Margarita"

Yes, please!

Sabrina wrote: "Ruslan and Lyudmila by Pushkin"
I have a beautifully illustrated Russian version of this I would love to read!

Haha...Well, I couldn't find a translations (in my home language) and a pretty me edition, that surface per on a majore bookstore, was rather overpriced for my wallet.

Back on that day, I was roaming 3 Pub libraries, and on one occasion, I saw this book standing in a pile( waiting -for months- to be catalogued) I became furious, and asked the librarian, why she hadn't told me ( I was see!imgmformthisnon the phone) and haha she simply lent it to me for free...
I got it now my shelves ever since, but I can't decide if I should read 'Dead would've first or this...



Note: Imhearing from a close friend hat the latter, is kinda depressive, wanna tell me Ur own opinions?

I also vote for The Master and Margarita.

While I cherish the Russian classics - actually I am reading Tolstoy’s War and Piece at the moment, I harvest a strong penchant to the soviet classics like Tchingis Aitmatov, Valentin Rasputin or Vassiliy Shukshin (just to name a few) and poets like Marina Zvetayeva, Anna Akhmatova or Boris Pasternak. But I would also like to discover contemporary authors like Ulitskaya, Sorokin or Marinina. My motivation to participate in this group is on discovering something new, that I was not aware of before

We read The Master and Margarita years ago BUT if there are enough participants, why not read again!

We can start in couple of days.

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I'll go along with whatever the group suggests -- I originally joined this group to broaden my Russian literature experience and used it as a forum to find some new things.

Happy to hear that the group is going active again! Thanks Amalie!

If this is old enough my nomination:
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 by Solzhenitsyn (just published in english fall 2017)

I plan to start reading Resurrection in a month

I would be up for ‘Demons’ by Dostoevsky (newish translation by my favorite duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky).

Or if something ‘lighter’ is in order I wouldn’t mind reading ‘The White Guard’ by Bulgakov.

I vote for "Resurrection".

I’m new to the group. Could someone who has been around awhile maybe post some of the books that have been covered recently. This would help us newbies in nominating a tale that is fresh for the better part of the club.

Nina wrote: "The Master and Margarita"

I have been wanting to read this for so long!

I'm interested in reading The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya and The Mother by Maxim Gorky.

Just make sure you 'vote' for your choice or nominate. I will not count if you just mention it or comment about a book. You can vote/nominate until May 03.

Since my choice garnered no interest I change my vote to Resurrection. (Recently re-read M&M)

How about something by Chekhov? Even his long stories are short :)

There's a fine Everyman edition of Pevear/Volokhonsky's translations of his "Shorter Novels".

I would actually love to read Ruslan and Ludmila too, but I’d go for Master if that is more widely desired.

I will wait until the poll closes, as I wouldn’t know what to chose. I am currently reading a brilliant biography on Lenin by Victor Sebestyen.

I vote for Resurrection, if not Ruslan and Lyudmila :)

Hello guys, is any one up for Eternal Call by Anatoli Ivanov?
Just started reading it, and it’s hard to put down. I’ve read almost all of Tolstoy’s tales (except the short ones) and Ressuruction is definatley a hit. Did any one read Tolstoy’s Childhood-Youth-Adulthood? It’s also a great pick, and gives a glimpse into his roots. Master and margarita is a hard call for me for sure, personally, I don’t get along with the style of how it’s written although, the concept is great.
One more good read guys is a Quet flows the Don by Mikhail Sholohov (Nobel prize for this masterpiece). Go out a bit of your ‘Dostoyevskiy’ comfort zone ;)

I'm voting for M&M

I’ll vote for Master and Mararita I guess.

My vote to "Resurrection"

Otherwise would have loved to read any of Dostoyevsky's,
especially "White Nights" or "The Double".

"We" by Zamjatin

Results:

The Master and Margarita - 8
Resurrection - 6
Ruslan and Lyudmila - 3

I’ll vote for Master and Margarita. As a future recommendation, I’d be interested in reading Dostoevsky’s The Idiot.

Pamela wrote: "I’ll vote for Master and Margarita. As a future recommendation, I’d be interested in reading Dostoevsky’s The Idiot."

Me, too. I listened to this one on audiobook several years back; Michael Sheen was an excellent narrator. I could return to this one for more depth, though.