I’d never joined an online reading group until last week, when the Yahoo Russian Lit Reading Group sounded too good to resist. I’d been meaning to reread Doctor Zhivago and The Brothers Karamazov this year (or, well, last) anyway!
The reading list, chosen by participants, is a great survey course in Russian literature. But no grades!
Here is the schedule for discussions, which will begin on the 10th of each month:
March: Nikolai Gogol’ – “Шинель” (“The Overcoat”)
April: Boris Pasternak – Доктор Живаго (Doctor Zhivago)
May/June: Lev Tolstoy – Анна Каренини (Anna Karenina)
May/June: Anton Chekhov – “Поцелуй” (“The Kiss”)
July/August: Fedor Dostoevsky – Братья Карамазовы (The Brothers Karamazov)
July/August: Leo Tolstoy – Крейцерова соната (Kreutzer Sonata)
September: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Один день Ивана Денисовича (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
October: Ivan Turgenev – Отцы и дети (Fathers and Sons)
November/December: Aleksandr Pushkin – Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin)
November/December: Orlando Figes – Natasha’s Dance
Bonus! Here’s a slide show of Nizhniy Novgorod from The New York Times.
