Can we develop a definitive "Resume with the Russians" chart/start pack?

Lets discuss Russian literature. How does one read the entire Russian canon?

>Dostoevsky.
>Tolstoy.
>Gogol.
>Turgenev.
>+ the many others - old and semi-recent.

What are the essential texts and authors? Then, once you cover the essentials what are the deeper cuts that real niggas read?

The obvious starter books would be Notes from Underground due to its length and simplicity, then you would progress to Crime and Punishment followed by TBK. Once you cover the 'big three' you would go on to read The Idiot, Demons then w/e else of his lesser know works like House of the Dead, The Adolescent and his numerous short stories.

For Tolstoy it would be probably The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Anna Karenina, then War and Peace. After these three are read you could go on to read Resurrection, then some short stories (which ones are the best?), then his philosophical / non-fiction writings.

Anyone who has read a lot of Russian lit want to get some reading lists for other authors going?

No. Fuck off, frog homo

I study comp lit with a focus on Russian modernism at a top 20 American university.

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>Babby is upset by frogs.

What the fuck are you doing on this website?

I study Russian with a focus on the influence of Schopenhauer on Tolstoy's oeuvre at a top 10 UK university.

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I wrote my doctoral thesis on the possible Biblical allusions in the card game scene in Gorky's The Lower Depths.

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Why is always a focus on depressive 'deep' literature with us slavs? School made sure to make me hate all of Tolstoy/Distoevsky/Nabokov/Gogol/Pushkin/Mayakovsky/Turgenev, so my lit stack mostly consists of adventure and sci-fi novels

>all of Strugatsky bros
>almosto all of Belyaev, especially Professor Dowell's Head
>Kaverin - The Two Captains
>The Twelve Chairs - Petrov
>We - Zamyatin

pleb 2bh

Lmao what? You want to make a chart telling people they should read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, two of the most straightforward and developed novelists in the canon, in some arbitrary retarded order? Why?

Fuck off dumb frogposter.

>falling for the obvious bait

its just a frog you crybaby liberal

Andrei Bely

this, this, a thousand times this.

I wish he was more mentioned on this board. Petersburg and the Silver Dove are fantastic. Wish I could find some of his other works at a decent price

>totalitarian intervertebrate
Heartily keked

>Resume with the Russians
What is it resuming from?

i ended up getting a third copy of Petersburg since two of the used elsworth translations i got were ruined by two or three penmarks, so i ended up spending about 100 bucks all told on the damn book, but it was worth it. I would learn russian, but i'm a pleb and i'd need stims before i could.

I didn't suggest an exact reading order. I used Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as an example of a reader's guide (either arranged by length/difficulty or by popularity).

They are the two obvious choices for Russian lit, I want to read some other Russian authors and those who know more about them can guide me and anyone else interested in Russian lit.

>Wah wah dumb frogposters are triggering me! So immature!

Fuck off you dumb cunt. Go back to /r/books if you get so triggered by frogs.

The ONLY correct Dostoevsky order:
>C&P
>Notes
>The Gambler
>The Double
>The Idiot
>Brothers Karamazov
>Demons

Also pic is a chart I found that needs some fixes but is still pretty good

Is Pushkin even worth it. Translated poetry is usually shit.

What do you guys think of quiet flows the don?

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Well, I read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (the Penguin edition) and enjoyed that for a short novel.

I read a lot of SF and The Strugatsky Brothers' novels (Roadside Picnic, Hard To Be A God) are up there with anything else from the 50s-60s. They manage to have the lurid appeal of genre fiction while being oblique and understated, with philosophical touches. Like PKD, they are books which should appeal to non-sf readers.

As for Tolstoy, The Cossacks was a joy to read, as are his other early stories. They are not essential, but they are a lot more approachable than his longer works.

War and Peace or Anna Karenina?

Which do I read first? Both arriving Tuesday.

amazing story. On par with Tolstoy's W&P.

What other Tolstoy have you read before? Or other lengthy Russian lit?

No Tolstoy but have read TBK and Crime and Punishment. Loved both of them.

FWIW I've also read Infinite Meme so I am able to read and finish long and/or hard books.

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I know what Russian authors/books to read but I have a big problem with translations. How do I know which one's the best/right/not shit translation?

>Racist frog meme
How blue pilled are you

Okay, good. I guess then it's mostly up to personal preference really and how much of a time commitment you want to make in the short term

How is it possible to translate Platonov?

I have three copies of each translation I know of, the first translation of the Silver Dove, and Bely's biography. That's funny you say that because I'm learning Russian so I can read Bely all over again in his native language.

Isaac Babel, Lermontov, Pushkin, Kharms, and as has been mentioned, Bely

I would also look into Vlad Pelevin. I thought Omon Ra was quite good.

*Victor, not Vlad