[HN Gopher] Born out of suffering: the inspiration of Dostoevsky...
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Born out of suffering: the inspiration of Dostoevsky's great novels
Author : lermontov
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-02-01 01:16 UTC (21 hours ago)
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| pelagicAustral wrote:
| _"You know we were talking earlier about Dostoevsky? - Oh, yeah?
| - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Born 1821. Died 1881"_
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| David Brent
| iujjkfjdkkdkf wrote:
| Tangentially, I'm interested to see your username OP, I just
| started reading "A hero of our time" this weekend. I've started
| to slowly get into Russian literature in th past six months,
| really based on books or authors mentioned in other books. I've
| read some Chekov, Turgenev, and now Lermontov, and would be
| curious to hear any recommendations. Really I like learning about
| what like was like then (at least from the authors' perspectives)
| opwieurposiu wrote:
| A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich is a great book. It is
| also very short, you can read it in a couple hours.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_De...
| lb1lf wrote:
| You're off to a great start, but might I suggest you look into
| Tolstoi? The Sebastopol Sketches about Tolstoi's impressionf of
| the Crimean War, for instance?
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| For a (much more refined!) literary work, I think my favourite
| is Hadji Murat - where Tolstoi contemplates loyalty and honour.
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| And, of course, there's Anna Karenina and War and Peace, though
| I'll heretically admit that the latter didn't give me much
| except relief I'd churned myself through it by the time it was
| finished; I think I'd have appreciated it more if I'd kept
| notes underway - the dramatis personae is mind-bogglingly huge,
| and I suspect I lost lots of nuance as I lost track of the
| characters and their relationships.
|
| Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita' was a great read, but I'd
| suggest you get hold of a good commentary or annotated edition;
| when I first read it, I lost lots of context as I didn't catch
| references to contemporary Soviet society and persons (With
| several characters in the novel being modeled on real movers
| and shakers in the Soviet cultural scene)
|
| The story is brilliantly absurd and funny, though.
| ivankolev wrote:
| I have to mention some Ilf and Petrov for a light-hearted
| read in between the heavy stuff.
| russianlit wrote:
| You have a great list already.
|
| I will say of the ones most often recommended I've always
| dislike tostoy as it read to me like contemporary celebrity
| tabloid news: who wants to fuck who and how'd they kill
| themselves, and Nabokov because it always read to me like he
| was up his own ass (with the exception of pale fire because
| that character defect plays to his advantage in that work when
| read as a piece of satire)
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| Recommendations include:
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| Fiction: Gogol, Gorky
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| Nonfiction: Solzhenitsyn
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| Journals/essays: Mandelstam
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| Poetry: Akhmatova, Pushkin, Pasternak
| mediaman wrote:
| I'm not nearly as well read as you, but I've really enjoyed
| Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace. I enjoyed
| Tolstoy's constant arguing against the Great Man Theory, even
| if I disagree with aspects of his position. And I love
| Nabokov, both Lolita and Laughter in the Dark.
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| I've just started reading Checkhov's short stories. They're
| almost comically dark. I like them.
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