Description
The short story holds a central place in Russian literature. Many of their authors; Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin and Solzhenitsyn, acclaimed giants of Russian literature, are well known. But, many of these writers have only recently become known to the English-speaking world. Taken all together the gamut of human experience they portray is great. Some stories are tragic. But, there is comedy -- from Pushkin's subtle wit to Kharm's dark absurdism, Dostoevsky's graveyard humor, and Zoshchenko's satirical vignettes on life after the 1917 Russian Revolution. All of them responded to the twists and turns of Russian history. But as we shall see, humanity, in different times and different places, does not vary that much.
Weekly Topics
INTRODUCTION, ALEKSANDER PUSHKIN - MIKHAIL, LERMONTOV
NIKOLAY GOGOL
IVAN TURGENEV,FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
COUNT LEV TOLSTOY, NIKOLAI LESKOW
ANTON CHEKOV
LYDIA ZINANOVYEVA - ANNIBAL IVAN BUNIN, ALEXANSDR L. LUPKIN
TEFFI, YEVGENY ZAMIATIN, MAXIM GORKI
VERA INBER, MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, ISAAK BABEL
MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO, LEONID DOBYCHIN, MIHAIL ARTZYBASHEV, SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY
ANDREY PLATONOV, LEONID ANDREEV, VSEVOLOD GARSHIN
DANIIL KHARMS, VARLAM SHALAMOV
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN What a Pity, VASILY SHUKSHIN In the Autumn
ASSAR EPPEL, SERGEI DOVILATOV, YURY BUIDA, BORIS PASTERBAK, SASHA SOKOLOVA, ANDREI SINYAVSKY, SASHA SOKOLOV
VLADIMIR NABAKOV, GEORGI VLADIMOV, NADEZHDA MANDELSTRAM
Bibliography
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Robert Chandler Ed. (Penguin Books, 2006.)
