 | Stet by James Chapman
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $9.62 A tough, brilliant, experimental book that got me thinking about the "Russia of the mind", those stereotypes we tend to associate with Russia's writers and artists & the ghost country that these stereotypes create in our non-Russian minds.
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 | Odoevsky: The Salamander and Other Gothic Tales by V.F. Odoevsky
Buy new: $23.50 / Used from: $18.99 Cold air and the rustling of crows.
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 | The Silver Dove by Andrei Bely
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $18.05 Like reading a car wreck.
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 | Petersburg by Andrei Bely
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $3.67 Nabokov envied it.
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 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.16 My first Dostoevsky and still my favorite.
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 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.86 A great novel. Just get it.
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 | Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.94 Bulgakov's funniest.
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 | The Seven That Were Hanged, and The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
This one remains lodged in my skull even now.
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 | The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.00 Great buy. You'll dip into it again and again.
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 | A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.93 I think he's slightly overrated, but these stories go down smooth.
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 | Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $5.95 You're lucky this was published...and you probably don't even know it.
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 | A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $1.60 Tough prose. Translating it was probably hellish.
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 | The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.54 'The Nose' and 'The Overcoat' are essential.
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 | A Land the Size of Binoculars (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Igor Klekh
Buy new: $15.35 / Used from: $35.82 If we count Gogol we have to count Klekh. Odd, smart, almost Umberto Eco-ish. Almost.
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 | The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $11.99 Nice anthology. Some of the verse is weak, but the prose compensates.
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