Favourite Russian writers

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Multiple choices possible.

Me? Almost all. Who don't classify are whom I haven't read.
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[Sasaki Kojiro]

Well I've only read things by tolstoy and dostoevsky...

[Beirut]

Only one thing by Dostoevsky, the Insquisitor. Excellent!

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

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Must be One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, both by Soljenitsin (Solzhenitsyn).
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[Mouzafphaerre]

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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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[Fragony]

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

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

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

[Lemur]

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).

[Adrian II]

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..

[HopAlongBunny]

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...

[Mouzafphaerre]

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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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[Adrian II]

Hehe, no conspiracy behind it. *evil_grin*

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

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Lol!
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