20th century Russian literature doesn't get talked about much. What are the worthwhile authors from around 1920-2017
блaгoдapю!
Eugene Vodolazkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JnCO0OlhlE
>>7739802
Tatyana Tolstaya
>>7739802
Read any history of the soviet union with a section on literature and you'll find no shortage of this. Hosking's "the first socialist society" is a great intro to many prominent 20th century russian writers, presented within a history of life in the ussr which quite frankly you'll need to understand what any 20th century Russian is writing about.
Bulgakov
Platonov
Akhmatova
Zoshchenko
Bely
>>7739802
Grossman should be discussed here more often, if only for the siege chapters in Life and Fate
vasily grossman is great i concur.
vladimir sorokin is quite interesting as well.
>>7739802
Zamyatin's We is the best dystopian novel written tbqh. Blows the two meme dystopias out of the water.
>>7740148
ending feels slipshod though it's easy to see how orwell essentailly ripped from it
platonov's foundation pit can be considered dystopian in which case i think it's better? We is very interesting though.
Victor Pelevin is a great post-Soviet satirist. I started with Omon Ra which serves as a great introduction into his later work such as Generation "П" which is also published in English as Homo Zapiens.
>>7739802
Master & Margarita was a meme-book on /lit/ for a while. Read that.
>>7740059
Good list but
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>>7740742
Late Pelevin is a joke though. Modern thing + unrelated ancient thing = book. Repeat every year
>>7739802
Nobody mentions Solzhenitsyn?
>>7740742
This was how I was introduced to Pelevin too. Both books are now favorites of mine, I highly recommend everyone read at least Omon Ra because it's fairly quick, easy, and fun.
I can't seem to break past the beginning of the 20th century when I read russian lit. I'm going to try out Leonid Andreyev soon though.
>>7739802
I took a class on Post-Soviet Lit and really enjoyed most of it. There's definitely good stuff coming out of Russia, I think Pelevin and Petrushevskaya are criminally underrepresented on this board.
Maiakovski is god-tier soviet poetry
this guy. bukowski translator, poet, critic and a very radical human being all around.
>>7739802
>1920-2017
So how is President Trump? :^)
>>7740945
Solzhenitsyn is shit, read Shalamov instead
>>7741064
what's wrong with solzhenitsyn
>>7740945
Anything worth reading besides gulag archipelago?
>>7741042
Stop bugging us non-Americans with your joke politics
-Anna Akhmatova
-Vasily Aksyonov
-Leonid Andreyev
-Mikhail Artsybashev
-Isaac Babel
-Andrei Bely
-Andrei Bitov
-Ivan Bunin
-Lydia Chukovskaya
-Sergei Dovlatov
-Venedikt Erofeev
-Afanasy Fet
-Vsevolod Garshin
-Aleksander Griboyedov
-Vasily Grossman
-Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
-Daniil Kharms
-Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
-Mikhail Kuzmin
-Nikolai Leskov
-Vladimir Makanin
-Osip Mandelstam
-Vladimir Mayakovsky
-Yury Olesha
-Nikolai Ostrovsky
-Victor Pelevin
-Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
-Boris Pilnyak
-Andrei Platonov
-Zakhar Prilepin
-Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
-Victor Serge
-Varlam Shalamov
-Mikhail Sholokhov
-Fyodor Sologub
-Vladimir Sorokin
-Tatyana Tolstaya
-Lyudmila Ulitskaya
-Mikhail Zoshchenko
Bayan Shiryanov.
Why Mamleev is not mentioned?
>>7741830
Yeah he is good, kind of reminds me of Dostoevsky.
>>7741825
Russian porn
>>7743164
that's a good thing
>>7739802
There wasnt as great a push for art in the soviet union as they pretty much murdered any talented writer who did not comply with the commies
Zoshchenko is hilarious. His short stories about Soviet life are great. One is about a guy living in a tiny building and his neighbor leaves his radio on when he goes on vacation.
You can really see how shitty life was for them.
>>7743286
>was
It still is. I have never been propositioned by a preteen girl on a park until I went to Russia. The only positive thing I can think of is that they have a lot of condemned buildings you could go in and have your dick sucked in secrecy.
>>7743164
Portrait of the era.
>>7739802
Sholokhov is pretty good. Loved the Don river mega-tomes. But very pro-establishment, apparently.
Then there was one guy who wrote "The Foundation Pit". That was pretty good. Gorky I always found mediocre. The guy who wrote "The Thaw" too. Never read Bulgakov as I'm not a fan of that stuff.
Anti-establishment emigres like Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky are pretty famous.
>>7739802
how was there a class of rich Russians right after capitalism swept in
>>7739802
pla-fucking-tonov
>>7748806
Privatization of state property. If you managed to snag some warehouse in Moscow, you became an instant millionaire. Not even talking about the real big prizes like the heavy industry and oil, laying your hands on those propelled you right into the very top of the Russian political life.
>>7741683
>-Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
>-Daniil Kharms
>-Venedikt Erofeev
These are must read. Of modern authors I recommend Gorchev. Doubt he's translated though.
>>7739802
Vladimir Voinovich is really fun.
>>7739802
Isaac Babel is extraordinarily heartwarming. Beautiful, colourful prose. I'm not very sure how much of that is lost in translation though, can anyone fill me in on this? If you are a native Russian speaker though, Babel is an absolute must read.
>>7749242
>Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
This.
>>7749310
This. [2] The Twelve Chairs is one of the best books I've read. It's extremely well written and funny. The end is horrifying.
>>7749337
have you read the golden calf?
>>7749340
I bought it, and I'm going to start it pretty soon. Some say it's even better than TTC.
>>7740910
M&M is GOAT.
>>7749350
I still haven't read either, I think i'll move them up on my list, I was gonna read the Iliad next, but I want to read a nice and fun book. i don't get the impression that they're very dense, am i right?
>>7740742
Has anyone read Buddha's Little Finger? I've heard it's really good.
>>7749352
Not at all. They're quite easy and fun to read. But not lighthearted, as well.
(not that Iliad looks fun, but just seems like it's going to take a bit more concentration)
>>7749359
*doesn't
shit. i need to stop masturbating so often.
>>7749359
Oh god. I had to read Illiad for school and I remember not wanting to read it at all. Each time I started to read it was too difficult and arhaic for my taste. At one moment I figured that I have only two days left to read it, so I pretty much haven't slept at all, but I finished it and I'm glad I did. I didn't enjoy it at all and I can't quite understand why people on /lit/ seem to love it so much, but it definitely is a good and worthy work since people read it after so many years since it had been written.
>>7749374
Archaic*, I need to stop fapping so much as well
>>7749374
well, I read a prose version of the Odyssey as a youth, and i remember being riveted. I figure it's time to go through them again. I guess I like a bit of the ol' action and adventure.
>>7739802
Because Socialist Realism sucked ass.
>>7739802
Lukyanenko
>>7739802
This thread is terrible because you cannot keep the opinion of Russians from the bydlo chantards going "let me tell you all the Russian names I know".
Ask that again on 2ch [dot] hk [slash] bo [slash]
>>7749350
Golden Calf's end is even more horrifying, to be honest
>>7749485
Actually, this thread's taste is better than /bo/'s.
>>7739802
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin
>>7749495
if so then only because the random names known to an anglo preclude dank maymes and trollery.
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