read more russian literature

I am so head-over-heels intrigued by Dostoevsky right now that it’s kind of silly. I read the Brothers Karamazov the summer before freshman year, and while I had enough grasp of it to be impressed, I wasn’t quite ready for it. Now we’re reading Crime and Punishment in AP English and it’s a wonderful whirligig of a book, with a dozen different moving parts and all sorts of philosophical implications… and, of course, the all-important neatness.
I’m too busy to even wake up right now, but this summer- maybe during the +8 hour plane ride to Prague?- I and a friend are planning on tackling Anna Karenina. I’m pretty psyched!

Ayn Rand.

She formally denounced Russia and spent nearly all of her life in America.

But still, a fabulous Russian Novel. :P

I now have a job where I have a lot of free time on my hands, and have settled into reading.
And I’ve always liked Russian Literature, so now is the time to read even MORE of it.

Already read:

Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina – Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories – Tolstoy

To read:

The Idiot – Dostoevsky

I haven’t started with Anna Karenina, as was my plan, because another great (GREAT) Russian writer came my way.
I’m now reading “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is both funny, touching and a book that makes you think about society – though society in the Moscow of the 1930ies.
I’m enjoying it very much and am definitely going to read more Russian literature in the future.

...that I haven’t really read any Russian classic so far. Anna Karenina is standing in my book shelf (an occasionally looking at me sadly) and just waits to be read. So I guess, this will be the one to start.

Later we can talk about Pushkin, Dostojevsky and (if I got a LOT of time) Tolstoy’s War and Peace ;)