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The First Circle – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn – 1968 Reviewed by: D.W. Cymbalisty This amazing story spans only a few days in the lives of several people that have been unduly imprisoned by Joseph Stalin’s secret ...
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One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Reviewed by: Dave Cymbalisty Date: 13 November 2001 THEME: Personal struggle for survival in a Stalinist concentration camp. A more literal translation of the title from the Russian would be “The Day Of Ivan ...
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And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov – 1928 Reviewed by: Sabyasachi Hazarika Date: 1 December 2001 It is a great book. A great anti-war document. Sholohkov shows the ravages of war on the soldiers ...
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Complete Prose Fiction – Alexandr Pushkin
Complete Prose Fiction (trans. by Paul Debreczeny) – Alexandr Pushkin – 1821-1841 Reviewed by: Eric Henderson Date: 15 March 2002 I offer here more of a commentary on this work as a translation than the a...
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Eugene Onegin – Alexandr Pushkin
Eugene Onegin – Alexandr Pushkin – 1825 Reviewed by: Ekaterina Mamyshev Date: 22 July 2003 I will say from the very beginning that I read this work in Russian, and can speak for the Russian version only ̵...
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Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov
Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov – 1932 Reviewed by: Julia Karlysheva Date: 10 June 2002 A evocative and playful novel, ‘Laughter in the Dark’ is a tragic account of love, obsession, trickery,...
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Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov – 1935 Posted by Chris on 3/2/2003, 21:05:13 I read Invitation with the kind of relish which I typically am able to employ with Nabokov. All the usual hallmarks were pre...
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A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov – 1840 Reviewed by: Ekaterina Mamyshev Date: 23 July 2003 This is a characteristic work of Lermontov, having as its background theme freedom. However, it is more th...
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Nikolay Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Nikolay Gogol – 1842 Reviewed by: Liliana Rodriguez Maynez Date: 15 April 2003 In my opinion, Gogol is a master of the short stories. They are very well written (o...
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Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol – 1842 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 10 November 2002 Dead Souls: What an incredible satire on Russian character and tradition! When I had read Gogol’s stories, The Madman’s Diary,...
