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So Vladimir Putin wants a canon of 100 Russian books for all Russians to be required to read Larry Send a noteboard - 26/01/2012 01:21:44 PM
Leaving aside the motives behind this, what books should be considered for any such proposed "canon"?

Ten that would be no-brainers for me would be:

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; The Idiot; Crime and Punishment

Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilych

Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Gogol, Dead Souls; a full collection of his short stories

Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago


What other titles should be added? (I can think of another dozen or so, but these are the most immediate ones that came to mind).
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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So Vladimir Putin wants a canon of 100 Russian books for all Russians to be required to read Larry - 26/01/2012 01:21:44 PM 1510 Views
I have no idea, BUT nossy - 26/01/2012 01:29:02 PM 955 Views
Oh, I'd read it right after I finish Le Monde's list Larry - 26/01/2012 01:44:59 PM 1010 Views
I can come up with 75 without any problem Tom - 26/01/2012 05:10:47 PM 1004 Views
I was wondering if you'd have to include Sholokhov there Larry - 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM 861 Views
I think it's probably safe to conclude from that list... Legolas - 26/01/2012 08:15:35 PM 889 Views
Considering his first 20... Larry - 26/01/2012 09:30:10 PM 837 Views
Oh, nevermind, I'd overlooked his plays there on the 16th position. Ignore what I said. Legolas - 26/01/2012 09:42:03 PM 827 Views
You were absolutely 100% correct, though. Tom - 26/01/2012 11:29:50 PM 750 Views
It was more in chronological order, rather than in terms of quality Tom - 26/01/2012 11:35:10 PM 2721 Views
Ah Larry - 26/01/2012 11:48:25 PM 801 Views
It was that obvious? *NM* Tom - 26/01/2012 11:29:06 PM 321 Views
Apparently not for me Larry - 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM 806 Views
The only Sorokin I care to read is Pitirim Sorokin. Tom - 26/01/2012 11:39:39 PM 793 Views
Pelevin being the exception? Larry - 26/01/2012 11:49:18 PM 773 Views
"SNUFF" is coming out in English in February already? Tom - 27/01/2012 12:04:16 AM 741 Views
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids Larry - 27/01/2012 10:55:36 AM 768 Views
That was his 2008 book, called "P5" in Russian. Tom - 27/01/2012 08:18:06 PM 733 Views
Re: I can come up with 75 without any problem Tom - 27/01/2012 12:02:55 AM 856 Views
good list aragornital - 29/01/2012 09:06:28 AM 793 Views
I studiously avoided Fonvizin. Tom - 31/01/2012 08:37:04 PM 822 Views
Zamyatin? *NM* rebelaessedai - 30/01/2012 10:17:29 AM 387 Views
What did you want to ask about Zamyatin? *NM* Tom - 31/01/2012 08:38:31 PM 361 Views
I suspect she, like me, read a little too fast and wrongly thought she'd found an omission. *NM* Legolas - 02/02/2012 06:42:22 PM 377 Views
Shit, did I miss it? rebelaessedai - 03/02/2012 09:07:24 AM 883 Views
Re: Zamyatin? Vivien - 02/02/2012 03:27:01 AM 732 Views
I agree. *NM* rebelaessedai - 03/02/2012 09:08:02 AM 362 Views
Stupid double post. *NM* rebelaessedai - 30/01/2012 10:17:30 AM 329 Views
I'm more interested in how this would be enforced A Deathwatch Guard - 27/01/2012 02:39:15 AM 863 Views
The same way everybody else does it... DomA - 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM 915 Views
That's exactly what they're talking about. Tom - 27/01/2012 04:38:08 AM 922 Views
Did you ever hear of the flea joke? Vivien - 02/02/2012 03:23:06 AM 948 Views
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