I know Russian. What should I read in this language?
>>24889068Tихий Дэн.
I am considering learning Russian one day to read Lermontov, Tolstoy and Chekhov
>>24889068>What should I read in this language?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_books_for_schoolchildren
>>24889068Golovachyov please
>>24889068>you're out of touch I'm out of time
>>24889174>but I'm out of my heeead when you're not around
>>24889068Nothing. Russians are illiterate brutes.
>>24889068Maybe it is only because we don't get many Russian speaking anons but you never see the Russian meme authors like Tolstojevskij being praised as great prose stylists. In fact prose seem to often be their very last concern when it comes to their appreciation of them, it rather being mostly dependent on how strongly you subscribe to their respective flavor of moralfaggotry. So it probably isn't worth it to get through thousands upon thousands of pages of russian to just get the same out of it that you would from a transaction I'd go for the modernists and post-modernists, they are more likely to play with language in a way that a Russian speaker could appreciateI'd go for Petersburg, whatever Nabokov has written before fleeing Russia, and I have heard good stuff a out Sorokin
>>24889071The movie was better
>>24889068pelevin
>>24889240Russian literature is rarely liked by russians - reasons are many, but one of them is that various often long and heavy to comprehend (for a schoolboy) books are given to read as mandatory entries in school. Young just don't have enough experience to properly understand those let alone to appreciate (and we are talking reading-lovers here, who weren't even 10% during my own education time).All that and the thing that most russian literature is depressing as fuck, especially "serious", which is not a good feature to make something to look appealing to someone who lives in Russia.I'd rather recommend to read Saltykov-Schedrin - quite amusing satire about russian society of his time.On the other hand you of the west tend to love various misery porn like Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" and Jordan's "Wheel of Time".
>>24889068The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum Written by Himself
>>24889264>Russian literature is rarely liked by russians - reasons are many,Because it's bullshit, boring af
I know russian too. It's my mother tongue.I prefer to read in english though.
>>24889068Khlebnikov
>>24889174>>24889206I love Hall & Oates. Too bad they hate each other now.
>>24889278Misery porn?
>>24889068Hopин
>>24889240>you never see the Russian meme authors like Tolstojevskij being praised as great prose stylists'Dostoyevski was a poor stylist' is a popular meme both in Russia and abroad, partially thanks to Nabokov's critique and stories about how he was paid for word count. I think it's not exactly true (just like a meme about Dosto supposedly being morose and depressive), but whatever. Everybody in Russia considers Pushkin to be our greatest writer, and since he's a poet he's untranslatable.Anyways, if >>24889068 isn't yet particularly familiar with the language, this is exactly why he should start with the great prose novels: Gogol, Goncharov (Oblomov), Turgenev (Fathers and Sons), Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Ilf&Petrov (12 chairs, Golden Calf), Alfred Heydok (Stars of Manchzhuria), Soviet prose about WWII, Platonov's 'Return', Strugatsky brothers (Monday Begins on Saturday, Hard to be a God), Sanaev (Bury Me Behind the Baseboard), Fazil Iskander, Norin. If you are into sci-fi and fantasy, check out Belyaev, Bulgakov, Bazhov, Yefremov, more Strugatsky brothers, Lukyanenko (Spectre), Loginov (Many-armed God), Baranko's 'Horde' (also known as 'Jihad' in English), Pelevin, Krapivin.After that try Pushkin's and Lermontov's prose, Griboyedov, Chekhov, Andreyev, Tvardovsky (Vasily Terkin), Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Yerofeev (Moscow-Petushki), Axyonov, Limonov, Pelevin, Yelizarov, Alexei Ivanov. I don't actually like Gorky, Sholokhov, Grossman and Pasternak, but foreginers seem to consider them great as well. Listen to Russian rock and bard music. If you're into gritty/pulpy/degenerate/obscene stuff check out Afanasyev's 'Zavetnye skazki', 'Luka Mudischev', Gilyarovsky (Moskva i moskvichi), Bayan Shiryanov, Lomachinsky (Zapiski sudmedexperta), Nikonov (Khuyovaya Kniga), Nekras Ryzhi (Cheshezhopitsa), Nikulin (Vospominanya o Voyne), Sergey Klyaus (Cepгeй Кляyc 'Suicide', short story on proza.ru), late Astafyev (Lyudochka, The Cursed and Killed), "Skazki Tyomnogo Lesa" by Mushroom Elves, Prilepin and more Shalamov and Limonov. Only after that you should start getting into complex poetry and great prose stylists - Pushkin, Leskov, Rozanov, Beliy, Bunin, Yesenin, Kharms, Mayakovsky, Platonov, Nabokov, Dombrovsky (Keeper of Antiquities), Bitov (Pushkin House), Sasha Sokolov, Mamleev, Golovin, Galkovsky, Danilkin (Lenin and Gagarin's biographies), Vodolazkin, Krusanov, Roman Mikhaylov, etc. You need to know the language and culture to appreciate complex works, so start with simpler stuff first.
>>24889395Not even that. They are just garbage.
TolstoyDostoevsky I think that's about it
>>24889068Chekhov is the goat
>>24889068Ocтpoв Кpым
Anything by Saltykov Shchedrin
>>24889547>and since he's a poet he's untranslatablePushkin has amazing prose too
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>>24889068Read 2ch, they have a /bo/ board for discussions of literature, /izd/ for aspiring writers, /re/ for religion, /ph/ for philosophy, and they're all shit.
>>24889264>Russian literature is rarely liked by russiansI can confirm. Reading Tolkien as a kid was immensely more fun than some gay ass bullshit by Pushkin
