Best Russian Literary Criticism Books
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1. Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage
English
565 pages
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller.
“The best (translation) currently available”-Washington Post Book World.
2. The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author: by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
0061253715
English
704 pages
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.George F. KennanIt is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.
David Remnick, The New YorkerSolzhenitsyn’s masterpiece…. The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
3. The Brothers Karamazov
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
English
824 pages
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeThe Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the wicked and sentimental Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha.
Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original.
It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
4. The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire
Author: by Mikhail Bulgakov
B005LPUB6W
Grove Press
December 1, 2007
The classic collection of wildly inventive and bitingly satirical tales of post-revolutionary Russia: amusing and excellent reading (Isaac Bashevis Singer). This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution.
Among the seventeen boldly outspoken writers represented here are Mikhail Bulgakov, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Valentin Katayev, and Yury Kazakov. Whether the stories and novellas collected here take the form of allegory, fantasy, or science fiction, the results are ingenious, critical, and hilariously timeless.
The stories in this collection tell the reader more about Soviet life than a dozen sociological or political tracts. Isaac Bashevis Singer An altogether admirable collection … By the highly talented translator Mirra Ginsburg … Many of these stories and sketches are delicious, evena miracle!
Funny, and full of subtlety and intelligence. The New Leader Hilarious entertainment. Beyond this it illuminates with the cruel light of satire the reality behind the pretentious faade of the Soviet state.Sunday Sun
5. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author: by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
English
752 pages
0061253723
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.George F.
KennanIt is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. David Remnick, The New YorkerSolzhenitsyn’s masterpiece…. The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
6. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author: by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
0061253731
English
608 pages
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn’s moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.George F.
KennanIt is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. David Remnick, New YorkerSolzhenitsyn’s masterpiece…. The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
7. Crime and Punishment
Author: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dover Publications
English
430 pages
The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor’s prison.
With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia.
One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel which he described as Crime and Punishment. One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world’s greatest novelists.
Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman a pawnbroker whom he regards as “stupid, ailing, greedygood for nothing.” Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings of guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses to the crime and goes to prison.
8. The Master and Margarita
Author: by Mikhail Bulgakov
Vintage (March 19, 1996)
English
384 pages
The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, this classic novel was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death. When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associatesincluding a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witchhis antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism.
Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.
9. Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1840224304
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
English
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.
From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.
The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world’s harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.
10. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet
English
560 pages
Dostoyevsky’s epic masterpiece, unabridged, with an afterword by Robin Feuer MillerOne of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequencesan unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.
In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test, he suffers unbearably.
Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, grow from the same seed. No other novelist, wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought. And Friedrich Nietzsche called him the only psychologist I have anything to learn from.
With an Introduction by Leonard J. Stanton and James D. Hardy Jr.and an Afterword by Robin Feuer Miller
11. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin Classics
English
720 pages
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadRaskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.
But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.
This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky’s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky’s life and work.
12. The Master and Margarita
Author: by Mikhail Bulgakov
Grove Press
English
402 pages
A “soaring, dazzling novel” (The New York Times), here is Mirra Ginsburg’s critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature. The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967.
Written during Stalin’s time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov’s masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow.
Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate.
The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged “brilliant” by Publishers Weekly.
13. 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (Kathartika™ Classics)
Author: by Joseph Conrad
KTHTK (May 17, 2021)
May 17, 2021
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This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Alcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honor de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBront, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBront, Charlotte: Jane EyreBront, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: The Way of All FleshCarroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandCather, Willa: My ntoniaCervantes, Miguel de: Don QuixoteChopin, Kate: The AwakeningCleland, John: Fanny HillCollins, Wilkie: The MoonstoneConrad, Joseph: Heart of DarknessConrad, Joseph: NostromoCooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the MohicansCrane, Stephen: The Red Badge of CourageCummings, E.E.: The Enormous RoomDefoe, Daniel: Robinson CrusoeDefoe, Daniel: Moll FlandersDickens, Charles: Bleak HouseDickens, Charles: Great ExpectationsDostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and PunishmentDostoyevsky, Fyodor: The IdiotDoyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the BaskervillesDreiser, Theodore: Sister CarrieDumas, Alexandre: The Three MusketeersDumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte CristoEliot, George: MiddlemarchFielding, Henry: Tom JonesFlaubert, Gustave: Madame BovaryFlaubert, Gustave: Sentimental EducationFord, Ford Madox: The Good SoldierForster, E.M.: A Room With a ViewForster, E.M.: Howards EndGaskell, Elizabeth: North and SouthGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young WertherGogol, Nikolai: Dead SoulsGorky, Maxim: The MotherHaggard, H.
14. Fifty-Two Stories (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Anton Chekhov
Vintage (January 19, 2021)
English
528 pages
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction.
Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one single type of Chekhov story.
They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia and all walks of life, including landowners, peasants, soldiers, farmers, teachers, students, hunters, shepherds, mistresses, wives, and children. Taken together, they demonstrate how Chekhov democratized the form.
Included in this volume are tales translated into English for the first time, including Reading and An Educated Blockhead. Early stories such as Joy, Anguish, and A Little Joke sit alongside such later works as The Siren, Big Volodya and Little Volodya, In the Cart, and About Love.
15. Dead Souls
Author: by Nikolai Gogol
Vintage
English
432 pages
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp.
As Gogol’s wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for “dead souls”-deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them-we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov’s proposition.
This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel’s lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
