Russian

An Overview of Russian Literature

Many users intellectuals hipsters of /lit/ will tell you that Russian literature is best literature. This is not the case at all. In fact, Russian literature is among the worst there is to offer in the world of literature, only beating out African and Asian literature, which are both boring shitfests themselves so that's not really saying anything.

One of the big names of Russian literature is Fyodor Dostoevsky. Mentioning his name in any /lit/ thread = guaranteed_replies.jpg. This is due to the fact that /lit/ users can't think for themselves and would praise Dostoevsky's warm shit if he smeared it onto pieces of paper and called it a story. In reality, however, Dostoevsky is wordy and his novels contain overly boring subplots which have nothing to do with the central plot of the story whatsoever. Imagine Dumas but boring and with overly sentimental characters, who "pale" or "redden" every goddamn time they say or hear or do something. For example, Dostoevsy's The Brothers Karamazov contains two long chapters dedicated to the life of a dying priest or elder or some stupid shit who is much more inferior than any minor characters in the novel. None of this has any relavancy to the original plot, which is a trio of kids who want to kill their father, which is actually interesting. But the words and the way the story is told only have to do about 10% with the main plot.

All in all, don't read Russian literature. If you want to read some good books about depressed people go read some of the Lost Generation authors.

19th Century

Title	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	Cover
A Hero of Our Time	Mikhail Lermontov	1841	208
Dead Souls	Nikolai Gogol	1842	512
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories	Nikolai Gogol	1842	368
Oblomov	Ivan Goncharov	1859	496
Sketches From a Hunter's Album	Ivan Turgenev	1852	416
Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	1862	336
The Golovlyov Family	Mikhail Saltykov	1876	344
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy	~	720
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	1877	864
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1869	1440
Notes From Underground	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1864	160
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	718
The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1869	656
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	796
Demons	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1872	768
Woe From Wit	Aleksandr Griboyedov	1823	160
The Plays of Anton Chekhov	Anton Chekhov	~	400
Stories of Anton Chekhov	Anton Chekhov	~	496
The Collected Stories	Alexander Pushkin	~	608
Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories	Nikolai Leskov	1865	432

20th Century

1. Pelevin - The Clay Machine-Gun (1996)

Maksim Gorky