Anyone into Russian Lit ? (Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov)

[Shafique]

Slam all,
I'm currently reading The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol ( almost finished reading his work, too little he wrote and died young!) and boy oh boy! he is one heck of a social sitarist and now I want to discuss the crap outta his work. I read Dostoevsky and Bulgakov before and they are great but I liked Gogol the most that's because of his vibrant and humorous writing style ( that would make you surprise if you're from Punjab, particularity the puns in his writings I surprisingly found them similar to our Desi Jughats ), His plots and the way he presents the facticities, is just amazing!!.
His author profile: Nikolai Gogol

Major works (from where you'd start loving him): The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol , Dead Souls

[Waqar]

I have read some Russian authors. Dostovesky, Tolstoi, anton chekov. Tolstoi is my fav. Russian authors never cease to amaze me.

[Shafique]

Yusra wrote: "I will add him to the list for sure. :) I loved Anna Karenina so much I am still riding the Tolstoy high. I picked up a copy of War & Peace from the library and am planning to start that soon! :)"

Waqar wrote: "I have read some Russian authors. Dostovesky, Tolstoi, anton chekov. Tolstoi is my fav. Russian authors never cease to amaze me."
Read a crap load of Dostoevsky last year and some chekov, they are great, Gogol is a precursor and influencer of all three as they say Russian lit started from Gogol and ended on Checkov.
haven't read Tolstoy yet ( tiny bit of Anna Karenina though) kinda saving him for winter days, there's a new series on War & Peace, heard a lot of good things about it though I'm struggling hard to keep myself from watching it because I don't want to spoil the book. :) .

[Waqar]

The series is okay.. Maybe even good. But it can't.. Portray what war and peace really is... Nothing can except the book. War and peace is different in this aspect from all others. It is very hard, almost impossible to spoil it with spoilers.. Because it just isn't a novel.. Its history and novel.. Something in between..

[Lara]

Russian authors are in a league of their own. I've read Dostovsky and Tolstoy. Anna Karenina was great. Will definitely read Gokul. I think The Namesake character was named after him. War and peace is thick, the paperback is a bit hard to handle, so I'll probably go with kindle.

[[deleted user]]

I don't remember reading novels by Russian authors, maybe some short stories. But there is one Polish writer who I've read a lot of. I think I've read ALL his books, his novels and every short story. That writer is Polish science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem. His stories are amaaaaaaazing. They are unique and quite different from Western science fiction writers.

[Shafique]

Asad wrote: "I don't remember reading novels by Russian authors, maybe some short stories. But there is one Polish writer who I've read a lot of. I think I've read ALL his books, his novels and every short stor..."

Great, I've a Sci-fi craze, will look into Stanislaw Lem real soon.

[Shafique]

Lara wrote: "Russian authors are in a league of their own. I've read Dostovsky and Tolstoy. Anna Karenina was great. Will definitely read Gokul. I think The Namesake character was named after him. War and peace..."
Yeah, beside giving you a moral justification to pirate books if you live in pakistan :D, Kindle is great to handle thick books :)