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Need some advice about Russian classical books, thanx!

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Yaerath Frequent Guest Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Valladolid, Spain	Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:21 am    Post subject: Need some advice about Russian classical books, thanx! Hi everybody!! Here in Spain I was finally able to find a slavonic languages' bookshop! (I admit it was difficult to get it) I have some russian friends who told me that the best way of improve my russian, appart from practising with them , is reading some russian classical books. My knowledges about russian literature are very few, I know the ones that everybody know: Tolstoy, Dostoievski...etc, but that's all. In that bookshop (called Ugol pisatelei) I have so many books that i just don't know where to start! I would be very grateful if someone gave me some advice! I'd like interesting books, and medium high level of russian, (I need to learn new words everyday) The only russian book i really read from the beginning to the end, the only book I understood all was "master i margerita", but i found the subject very strange!!! Greetings from russialover spanish student! Laura
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:06 am    Post subject: 2Yaerath "Master and Margaret" is a very good book By the way, it is studied in russian schools. But this book is very dificult to understand cause there's quite psychodelic plot and characters.... But still it's one of the best books which i have read with lots of wonderful phylosophical ideas... Then I'd like to break the stereotype about Tolstoy. He's very respectable and famous but "War and peace" is an extremely boring book I advice you to buy: Dostoevsky "Murder and punishment", Chekhov (everything is worth to be read), Bulgakov (exept "Master and Margarita" there is another decent book "Dog's heart" [Sobachie serdce] and I am sure it wouldn't be strange for you). After reading those authors you'll be more aquainted with russian classical literature. (but it's only 1% of decent classical books).
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:44 pm    Post subject: Have you tried reading russian poems?.. Pushkin, Esenin, Tsvetaeva, etc..
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Yaerath Frequent Guest Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Valladolid, Spain	Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:54 pm    Post subject: Well...I found a Pushkin's poem about death. I liked it much cos it was my first real russian reading, but I thought that language was too difficult. (However, I read it last year..!) What I like the most about Russian poetry is reading it. It sounds so beatiful....English, French, German, for me all of them sound normal, nothing special. But Russian...reading this poem, it was one of the moments when i understand why I like it!! I would like to know as well how's the language level of difficulty in the book "Vlastelin Kolets", cos I've always loved it!! Thank you!! Pd: In Spain Dostoievski's book "Crimen y Castigo" (predstuplenie i nakazanie) is necessarily read in "segundo de bachillerato" (last school year before university) at least in my town!
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