Post by thestrangewinston on Jun 12, 2011 22:27:59 GMT -5
I'm obsessed with Russian literature. Particularly the good kind ;D. I've only danced around the cannon, though. War & Peace, Anna Karenina, and most of Tolstoy's short stories and Novellas. (The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the best novella of all time, by the way. And that isn't opinion.)
Nabokov's Speak, Memory is flawless, too. Um, let's see: Dos' The Idiot is one of my favorites as well.
I think I single-handedly paid Pevear and Volokhonsky's mortgage.
A bunch of poetry too: Tsvetaeva, Blok, Akhmatova, Pushkin. My university has a pretty awesome Russian department. I've taken Women in Russian Literature, which was fantastic. We also have focus classes on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov. Of which I've only taken Tolstoy, but probably will hit the others before I graduate.
I would absolutely love to take a class on strictly Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.