Russian authors

okay so I just finished a book and I am deciding on what to start first: here is what I have for the moment.

War and Peace by Tolstoy

Great Expectations by Dickens

The Woman in White by Collins

The 3 Musketeers by Dumas

Don Quixote by Cervantes

The Rainbow by Lawrence

Fairwell to Arms by Hemingway

Pride and Prejudice by Austen

so which one to start? :P

also is Dune a good novel? looking to purchase it

  On 4/7/2010 at 2:33 AM, dilbthelame said:

Haven't read anything else by Dostoevsky but Karamazov Bros is bloody amazing. Heavy as fuck, long winded to death, but absolutely fucking beautiful and incredible too. took me about 8 months to read in between a few other books. Don't be put off if you don't remember names/places/events just read and take your eyes along for the ride, it's brilliant. Theological debates in it are mind boggling, esp. the grand inquisitor chapter. Characters are kinda 'victorian', esp the ladies, in terms of falling into dead faints and whatnot because someone drank their tea the wrong way, but that's minor. Story picks up after about 400 pages or so.seriously, i understood maybe about half of each page and it was still fucking worth it. probs sounds like i'm bigging up a load of flaws with this book, but honestly they pale into insignificance with the sheer fuckin' scale of awesomeness. how something this huge can fit into the head of just one single guy i'll never know. it's almost as good as the da vinci code.

  On 4/12/2010 at 9:07 PM, halisray said:

Don Quixote by Cervantes

yes mate, start here. great story but expect long passages of description.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's we

anton chekov's short stories are great like ward six and the lady with the dog.

he may not be strictly russian but issac asimov is also good, the foundation is fantastic.

i've read little Russian literature despite my rampant Russophilia. Zamyatin's We is some top-notch dystopia though

  On 4/13/2010 at 12:08 AM, funkaholic said:

Yevgeny Zamyatin's we

 

anton chekov's short stories are great like ward six and the lady with the dog.

 

he may not be strictly russian but issac asimov is also good, the foundation is fantastic.

beaten to it lol

also yes Asimov's Foundation. he's barely Russian though, i don't think he could even speak Russian (his family spoke Yiddish lol)

really want to read some Soviet-era shit e.g. Master & Margarita

I have the Constance Garnett translation of Karamazov. How much different is it when compared to the volokhonsky/pevear translation?

old and stuffy