Geschichte und Kritik der russischen und sowjetischen Literatur

Helga Schubert über Anton Tschechow: Bücher meines Lebens 4

Autor: Helga Schubert
Erzähler: Helga Schubert
Verlag: Argon Verlag

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Bollingen: Princeton Classics, 72)

Autoren: Alexander S. Puschkin, Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd

Crime and Punishment: (Owc Hardback) (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

Herausgeber: Sarah J. Young
Autor: Fjodor M. Dostojewskij
Übersetzer: Nicolas Pasternak Slater

A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

Autor: Mikhail Lermontov
Übersetzer: Paul Foote

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)

Autor: Nicholas Rzhevsky

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Autor: Elif Batuman

Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale (International Folkloristics, Band 3)

Autor: Andreas Johns

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Alexander Pushkin

The Discourse on Gender Identity in Contemporary Russia: An Introduction with a Case Study in Russian Gender Linguistics. (westostpassagen - Slawistische Forschungen und Texte, Band 25)

Dennis Scheller-Boltz

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

Janet Malcolm

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

A Hero Of Our Time (World's classics)

Mikhail Lermontov

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly, " he gets down to business-heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free-less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.

Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams-including, " However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man, " and is equally adept at yearning satire: " Where is he, " Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life? " Flannery O' Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light. " Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis. -Kerry Fried

Der mazedonische Knoten: Die Identität der Mazedonier dargestellt am Beispiel des Balkanbundes 1878-1914- Eine Dokumentation zur Vorgeschichte der ... nach Aktenlage des Auswärtigen Amtes

Ute Steppan

A Karamazov Companion: Commentary on the Genesis, Language, and Style of Dostoevsky's Novel

Victor Terras

Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

James G. Williams, Rene Girard

The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement (English Edition)

Autor: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russisch und sowjetisch