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Apr 15, 2014 10:49PM
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The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir NabokovInvitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Lisa wrote: "Dead Souls- Nicolay Gogol"
Lisa, I think we read read this. Make sure you nominate another.
Lisa, I think we read read this. Make sure you nominate another.
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. I'm planning to read it.
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We read Dead Souls in 2011. I will not be including it in the poll again as there are so many books yet to be read. How about another selection?
Amalie wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Dead Souls- Nicolay Gogol"We read Dead Souls in 2011. I will not be including it in the poll again as there are so many books yet to be read. How about another selection?"
No worries, I'm going to go with whatever the group decides.
I am a fun of russian literature specially tolstoy, dostoyevsky and gogol though i've never read to any of them, but i heurt a lot about them. i want to read their works but i can't now i'll do it in the summer because i don't have time.
I would like that one, or Way of Muri (as above). There's so much excellent new writing that no one seems to know about, and I wish more people did know about it, especially as a lot of writing is being translated now, although not yet nearly enough!
Anne Marie wrote: "I would like that one, or Way of Muri (as above). There's so much excellent new writing that no one seems to know about, and I wish more people did know about it, especially as a lot of writing ..."
I agree - GLAS New Russian Writing has a wonderful catalog to choose from.
A friend recommended White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. Translation by Marian Schwartz
Very informative book to help understand. The area
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We read Russian and Ex USSR writers. Isn't Isaac Bashevis Singer a writer from the Iron Curtain? I might be wrong if so I'll add him to group bookshelf.
Isaac Beshevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American author - marvelous writer.
Aye, there's the rub! Many of his stories are set in pre-WW2 eastern Galicia which at that time was eastern Poland and is now western Ukraine which currently holds the power in Kyiv. To include him in Russian literature? That part of Europe has had, and has, an extremely intermingled population.
Larry wrote: "Aye, there's the rub! Many of his stories are set in pre-WW2 eastern Galicia which at that time was eastern Poland and is now western Ukraine which currently holds the power in Kyiv. To include him..."I vote to include him. My last name - Yarrow - was once Yaroshevsky and my ancestors come from the area you speak of, Larry :)
It's a recent translation by Amanda Love Darragh. (She's also translated many of Andrei Kurkov's books, among others!)
Has the vote begun yet? If so, where do we vote? (I apologise, as I've had this problem before but I just can't remember how it works...)
Anne Marie wrote: "Has the vote begun yet? If so, where do we vote? (I apologise, as I've had this problem before but I just can't remember how it works...)"On the top right of this page, click "polls" and there you find it.
edit: ops, I have seen only now that the poll closed yesterday.
dely wrote: "Anne Marie wrote: "Has the vote begun yet? If so, where do we vote? (I apologise, as I've had this problem before but I just can't remember how it works...)"On the top right of this page, click..."
Thank you for that. I missed my chance - but if I'd been on time I'd have voted for The Way of Muri.
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