Question by …: after reading dostoyevsky and tolstoy who should i read next?
i loved them both, which authors do you think i should read now?
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Answer by disen87
Stephen King of course!
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What do you think?
felliax says
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.
Edit- He's one of the author's Sue mentioned, but he's kind of hidden in the list.
Geeb says
Ibsen. Try Enemy of the People.
Risa says
You might as well continue with the theme and read Vladimir Nabokov. His "Lolita" is my favorite
rebel monkey says
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
is the true master
Sue Straka says
he 19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Era" of Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Vasily Zhukovsky and later that of his protegé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Pushkin is credited with both crystallizing the literary Russian language and introducing a new level of artistry to Russian literature. His best-known work is a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. An entire new generation of poets including Mikhail Lermontov, Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Afanasy Fet followed in Pushkin's steps.
Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, all mastering both short stories and novels, and novelist Ivan Goncharov. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F.R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in writing short stories and became perhaps the leading dramatist internationally of his period.
I vote for Pushkin or Chekov.