Favourite Russian writers

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Multiple choices possible. :book:

Me? Almost all. Who don't classify are whom I haven't read. ~:)
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Well I've only read things by tolstoy and dostoevsky...

Only one thing by Dostoevsky, the Insquisitor. Excellent!

And the Gulag Archipelago and a Day in the Life of Ivan Whatshisname. Excellent as well.

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Must be One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, both by Soljenitsin (Solzhenitsyn). ~:)
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Here is an account of what I've read, watched (movie) or attended (theatre) of each. (All from translatins of varying quality, unfortunately.)

Gogol:

• The Inspector
• The Marriage
• Taras Bulba (watched; Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis)

Tolstoy:

• Childhood
• War and Peace (watched)
  
• Anna Karenina (watched; Sophie Marceau)
• Resurrection
• Hadji Murad (my family roots are connected to him ~;))

Dostoyevski:

• The House of the Dead
• Crime and Punishment
• The Idiot
• The Adolescent
• The Brothers Karamazov (watched; Yul Brynner et al)

Turgenev:

• Smoke (reading now)

Chekhov:

• A Marriage Proposal
• Uncle Vanya
• The Cherry Orchard

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I have only read 'the Idiot' and 'crime and punnishment' from that list, you should add Konstatin Paustovskij, great books.

I've only ever read Dostoyevsky, so I'm voting for him.

Gogol is my main man. He was doing tragicomedy way before it was hep.

Checkov would come next for me. My favorite story: He sends The Cherry Orchard to the Moscow Theater. They read it, and tell him, "What an incredible tragedy! We were all weeping by the end."

Checkov writes back, "But it's a comedy!"

I saw the National Theater do Cherry Orchard the way C. intended, as a comedy, and it was hilarious. Even had Gandalf playing the lead (Ian something, I hear he acted in some other stuff).

Um, Mouzafphaerre, I'm not sure about the purpose of polling 15-odd members on their choice of writer or conductor. Next someone will poll us on what kind a shoes we wear.
Oops, someone just did...

Anyway, I like all of the nineteenth-Century Russian writers and have read most of the classics of that era and later ones. So? I would add Babel and Bulgakov, that's all..

Only read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Love'em both. Wish to read some of the others sometime too ~:)

Sad that I need to read them in eng. translation...

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Hehe, no conspiracy behind it. *evil_grin* Just wanted to exchange ideas an likes.

Poll? Well, it has practical value, such as reminding some names that other wise might slip off the mind. I don't even check the results. ~;)

If it bothers, it won't happen again.
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Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

Hehe, no conspiracy behind it. *evil_grin*

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Well, I just thought I detected a slight anti-Russian slant to your sig. But don't worry, I'll PM you about it! ~D :balloon2: :book:

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Lol!
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