The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam....
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Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. Edited by Clarence Brown.
IntroductionChronologySeclusion4Epigram on A. A. Davydova4Winter Evening5To...6Arion6Remembrance7The dreary day is spent7I loved you8The Bronze Horseman8Exegi Monumentum21The Shot22The Trouble with Reason35My Native Land131Farewell132From the Author's Introduction to A Hero of Our Time132Preface to Pechorin's Diary133Princess Mary133The Overcoat202Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages)232In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls, vol. 2)236On the Character of the Russians237The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol237The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol239The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Aleksandr Blok, on Gogol and Grigoryev240The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev240Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle)242Tears276Summer Nightfall277Appeasement277Silentium!278The Abyss278Human Tears279Last Love279Is Russia Distinct from the West?280From A Double Life282Strange, the Way We Met291Oblomov's Dream295First Love336On Belinsky390On the Russian Language391Recollections of Russian Intellectuals - 1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts)393401The Fruits of Reflection: Thoughts and Aphorisms406A Memory of Bygone Days409The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov)413On the Mission of Russia433On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality (from a speech on Pushkin)433The Death of Ivan Ilych440Master and Man489How Literature Teaches Us about Moral and Psychological Life529The Lady with the Dog534Uncle Vanya549The Story of How One Russian Peasant Fed Two Russian Generals609Twenty-Six Men and One Girl618Lectures on Godmanhood631Suggestions for Further Reading639
