What russian books you know?

[aksser]

What russian books you know? What russian writers you know?

[SoMuchThatisPossible]

My favorite author is Ayn Rand who was born to a Jewish bourgeoisie family in Russia in 1905. Her writing was affected greatly by her experiences under Communism after the Bolshevik Revolution 1917. Her first book "We the Living" was based around the time just after the Bolshevik Revolution. It's really a fascinating read because Rand wasn't just writing that book. She had lived it.

I have also read Leo Tolstoy as well. I don't really prefer his writing. The thing with his type of writing, he didn't publish the whole story at once. He wrote by chapter and they were published in the newspaper. Therefore, he was paid by chapter. So, to have financial security he drew out the whole story. There are a lot of unnecessary parts. Just my take on it.

[Fran]

Agree ... Ayn Rand is awesome
I also love the writings of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and my special favorite is Irene Nemirovsky. Also the poetry of Anna Akhmarova is deeply affecting IMO.
Nationality wouldn't be my chief concern when selecting books so I probably have read other Russian writers without being conscious of their nationality .... mind you they would have to be writing in English or translated - my Russian is limited to Das vadanya regretfully

[Rumsfeld]

Dostoevsky and his book The Idiot was great and War And Peace by Tolstoy is a must. I'm currently writing a major re-write to War And Peace if that counts for anything.

[Justine44]

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anton Chekhov
Vladimir Nabokov
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)

[aksser]

Did you prefer any modern russian writers? Or poetry? Did you thin that reading dead like hobby?

[Sonia Galloway]

"Bela" by Mikhail Lermontov. I loved it.

-- 20 Sep 2012, 17:44 --

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky