Chevengur
10 best books like Chevengur (Andrei Platonov): Invitation to a Beheading, Moscow to the End of the Line, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, Buddha's Little Finger, Kolyma Tales, A School for Fools, The Duel, The Compromise, The Red Laugh, Pushkin Hills
Invitation to a Beheading
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725318 |
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary...
| Author | Venedikt Erofeev |
| ISBN | 0810112000 |
Maybe the best book about Brezhnev's Russia imaginable. If you are the kind of person who has ever got drunk with friends, stormed a police station and then declared war on Norway then you will find much here that is familiar.
It's a book rich in allusion starting from the title (Moscow to Petushki)...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140441395 |
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact and fiction’, generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0141002328 |
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger,...
| Author | Varlam Shalamov |
| ISBN | 0140186956 |
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
| Author | Sasha Sokolov |
| ISBN | 0941423077 |
“Since it’s winter what kind of butterflies can you be speaking of, asks the pedagogue with mock surprise, what’s wrong – are you crazy? And you respond with unshaken dignity: in the winter one can speak only of winter lepidoptera, those which are called snow butterflies, I catch them in the...
| Author | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin |
| ISBN | 0451500458 |
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."
This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded...
| Author | Sergei Dovlatov |
| ISBN | 0897333535 |
A very different read than my usual book. This is a collection of newspaper articles written in Estonia during the late 1970s, each followed by a longer description, often satirical (intended? or otherwise) which provides the true background of the articles. Through this the reader sees a sample of...
| Author | Leonid Andreyev |
| ISBN | 1425478158 |
The Red Laugh is an utterly harrowing and nightmarish depiction of a sort of apocalypse that springs from the chaos, blood, and misery of Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, in language that prophetically echoes the horrors to come during the First World War. Centered on two nameless...
An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to...
Евгения Некрасова — писательница, сценаристка. Её цикл прозы «Несчастливая Москва» удостоен премии «Лицей». В новом романе «Калечина-Малечина»,...
