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Born in Kyiv, Bulgakov wrote in Russian and belongs to the Russian-language literary tradition. His Moscow novel combines satire, fantasy and questions of artistic responsibility. Turn to Tolstoy for a broad family panorama, Dostoevsky for moral conflict, and Chekhov for short fiction. Zamyatin and Platonov undermine the promise of a perfect society. Petrushevskaya and Sorokin broaden the selection with modern prose intertwining intimacy, violence and grotesquerie. Gogol, born in what is now Ukraine and writing in Russian, belongs to a literary history that crosses modern borders.
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The devil’s visit to Moscow intertwines with the stories of a writer, Margarita and Pontius Pilate.
Original title: Мастер и Маргарита
Penguin Classics
Translated by Richard Pevear i Larissa Volokhonsky
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Anna’s affair unfolds alongside Levin’s search for meaning in life, family and work.
Original title: Анна Каренина
Russian families’ lives intertwine with the Napoleonic wars and questions about the forces shaping history.
Original title: Война и мир
Raskolnikov tries to justify murder through a private moral theory but cannot escape its consequences.
Original title: Преступление и наказание
A father’s murder exposes conflict between brothers and arguments about faith, freedom and responsibility.
Original title: Братья Карамазовы
Short stories reveal frustrated desires and the quiet dramas of ordinary life.
Original title: Рассказы — выбор
The mathematician D-503 discovers the dangerous force of individuality in a state of total transparency.
Original title: Мы
Workers dig foundations for a building of the perfect future that increasingly resembles a collective grave.
Original title: Котлован
Short love stories reveal the desire for intimacy amid poverty, loneliness and cruelty.
Original title: Рассказы — выбор
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A sect seeking people with exceptional hearts combines violence, mysticism and contemporary grotesquerie.
Original title: Лёд; Путь Бро; 23000
A father and son become entangled in a revolutionary plot as Petersburg turns into a labyrinth of fear and political tensions.
Chichikov purchases deceased serfs who remain alive on paper, exposing the grotesque hierarchies of provincial Russia.
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