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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics) The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics) Notes from Underground the Double (Penguin Classics) The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.
All other Amherst students are decided by lotteryīelow are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. If Overenrolled: Majors receive preference. It resists all theories about what makes it tick, confounds all the paths to its possible transformation.” All readings in English translation. Our goal will be less to construct a canon of strangeness than to consider closely how estranged women, men, animals, and objects become the center of narrative attention and, in doing so, reflect the writer Tatyana Tolstaya’s claim that “Russia is broader and more diverse, stranger and more contradictory than any idea of it. The writers, most of whom imagine themselves to be every bit as bizarre as their heroes, include from the nineteenth century: Gogol (“Viy,” “Diary of a Madman,” “Ivan Shponka and His Aunt,” “The Nose,” “The Overcoat”) Dostoevsky (“The Double,” “A Gentle Creature,” “Bobok,” “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”) Tolstoy (“The Kreutzer Sonata,” “Father Sergius”), and from the twentieth century: Olesha (Envy) Platonov (The Foundation Pit) Kharms’ (Stories) Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita) Nabokov (The Eye, Despair) Erofeev (Moscow Circles) Pelevin (“The Yellow Arrow”). Rabinowitz (Section 01) DescriptionĪ course that examines the stories and novels of rebels, deviants, dissidents, loners, and losers in some of the weirdest fictions in Russian literature. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.Fall 2013 Strange Russian Writers: Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabokov, et alįormerly listed as: FYSE-13 | FYSE-22 | RUSS-17 Faculty Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. Other notable works by this author include: "Crime and Punishment" (1866), "Notes from the Underground" (1864), and "The Idiot" (1869). This volume is not to be missed by fans of Russian literature and lovers of Dostoevsky's seminal work. A prolific writer, Dostoevsky produced 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. His literature examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and political atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and he is considered one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. Bobok is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead, and A Nasty Story is a humorous look at the.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. However, what he goes on to hear leaves him with a great sense of sadness and disappointment. Our eavesdropper also learns that it is the "inertia" of consciousness that enables them to communicate in the grave, which they can do for up to a year. After a while, he begins to hear the voices of the recently dead, listening to their conversations about card games and political scandals. It is presented as the diary of Ivan Ivanovitch, a writer who goes to a funeral where he falls into deep contemplation. "Bobok" is a 1873 short story by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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