July 2010 - Russian Classics
What makes them classics? Are their themes still relevant? Are there any characters, or situations, you can identify with?
Examples include:
Aleksander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
Nikolay Gogol - The Government Inspector
Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time
Sergey Aksakov - A Family Chronicle
Aleksander Herzen - My Past and Thoughts From the Other Shore
Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov
Ivan Turgenev - A Month in the Country, etc
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Nikolay Leskov - Tales
Aleksandr Ostrovsky - The Storm
Nikolay Chernyshevsky - What is to be Done?
Anton Chekov - The Tales, The Major Plays
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago, (My Sister Life - poems)
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