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Russian literature
Books I have read about russian literature, brought together across genres, periods and countries.
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👍🏼GoodTres tormentas de nieve
Aleksandr Pushkin, Lev Tolstói y Antón ChéjovCompilation of three stories related to snowstorms in Russia in the 1960s.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThis novel recounts the harsh living conditions in a gulag (Soviet labour camp) through the experience of the protagonist, Ivan Denisovich, who is already imprisoned eight years out of a sentence of ten.
👍🏼GoodEl gran inquisidor / La casa muerta
Fiódor DostoyevskiTwo books: The Great Inquisitor is a fragment of The Karamazov Brothers, which recounts a second coming of Jesus Christ to earth in Seville during the Spanish Inquisition.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodWhite Nights
Fiódor DostoyevskyThe story of how a lonely young man from St. Petersburg accidentally met a woman on the street. four nights of love, dislike, disappointment, hope, everything.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodFathers and Sons
Iván TurguenevA Russian classic about something very simple and never changing: children think their parents don't understand the world and parents think their children want to destroy it.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodFirst Love
Iván TurguénevIt is a short novel from 1860 in which the protagonist tells the story of his first love. During one summer, while in his country house, he fell in love with a missing princess.
👍🏼GoodHow Much Land Does a Man Need?
Lev TolstóiA short novel by an ambitious peasant who proves that greed breaks the sack.
👍🏼GoodStrider: The Story of a Horse
Lev TolstóiThe life of an old decrepit horse, Jolstomer, told in the first person how humans despised and judged him for his appearance.
👍🏼👍🏼Very good