โ ูุชุงุจ From Karamzin to Bunin โ โค ููุงุฏูู
ูุฑ ููุฑูููููู
A textbook, the first part of which consists of sixty pages of essays, one for each story. I'm skipping those essays for now, as I am not a student of Russian literature.
1 - Poor Liza by Nikolai Karamzin - From the later 18th century, and it shows it. The prose is egregious-looking at first , but if one is patient, one will find the story. It's a pretty familiar one, as an innocent young girl is brought low by the love, and then lust, of a feckless young man of higher social standing. Too bad for her, and let this tale be a lesson to ya dear ladies.
2 - The Station Master by Alexander Pushkin- Similar to the first story but much better written and with the bad outcome coming down on dear old abandoned Dad instead of the feckless beautiful daughter. It's about a failure to honor family ties, but also about class distinctions.
3 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin - Another famous story by a revered master. This one was made into at least one movie - English I believe. About a guy who gets his comeuppance.
4 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol - The most famous of all Russian shorts? Read before by me a couple of times - I think.
5 - Bezhin Meadow by Ivan Turgenev - IT begins in the same ghostly territory where Gogol leaves off, but the view is much more ... transcendent(?) as our storyteller spends a lost night out in the big, beautiful, overwhelming bosom of Mother Nature, Russian-style. IT pulls out all the prose stops in his ecstatic descriptions of the great outdoors.
6 - The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolay Leskov. This long story sounds familiar so I might have read it a LONG time ago. Very black comedy methinks.
7 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man: A Fantastic Story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. More craziness from Mr. All-Wound-Up and ready to spew.
8 - God Sees the Truth, but Waits by Leo Tolstoy - a short and sweet of a man done wrong who fids a spiritual path away from hatred and despair.
9 - The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy - One of the all-time biggies short/long story -wise. This was my third time through. Tolstoy was always after the big fish, spiritually speaking: birth-life-death-suffering-meaning-God etc.
ููุงุฏูู
ูุฑ ููุฑูููููู - ููุฏ ุงููุงุชุจ ููุงุฏูู
ูุฑ ุบุงูุงูุชููููููุชุด ููุฑูููููู ูู ุนุงุฆูุฉ ู
ู ุฃุตูู ุฃููุฑุงููุฉ- ุจูููููุฉ ุจู
ุฏููุฉ ุฌูุชูู
ูุฑ ุงูุฃููุฑุงููุฉ ูู ุงูุฅู
ุจุฑุงุทูุฑูุฉ ุงูุฑูุณูุฉุ ููุงู ูุงูุฏู ูุงุถูุง ุดููุฑุง ูุชู
ูุฒ ุจุงูุงุณุชูุงู
ุฉ ูุงููุฒุงูุฉ ูู ุชูู ุงูู
ุฏููุฉุ ููู ุนุงู
ูกูจูงูก ุงูุชุญู ุจู
ุนูุฏ ุงูุชูููููุฌูุง ูู ุจุทุฑุณุจูุฑุบุ ููุตููู ุจุนุฏ ุซูุงุซ ุณููุงุช ู
ู ุงูุฏุฑุงุณุฉ ููู ุจุณุจุจ ุงุดุชุฑุงูู ูู ุงูุญุฑูุงุช ุงูุทูุงุจูุฉ ูุงุญุชุฌุงุฌุงุชูุงุ ูุงูุชูู ููุฏุฑุงุณุฉ ูู ู
ูุณูู ูููู ููุณ ุงูู
ุตูุฑ.
ูููุฐุง ุจุฏุฃุช ุฑุญูุชู ุจูู ุงูู
ูุงูู ูุงูุชูุช ูู ุณูุจูุฑูุง ูุฃูู ุฑูุถ ุฃุฏุงุก ูู
ูู ุงูููุงุก ููููุตุฑ ุงูุฌุฏูุฏุ ูุนุงุฏ ุฅูู ู
ุฏููุฉ ููุฒูู ูููุบูุฑูุฏ ุนุงู
ูกูจูจูฅ ูุจูู ูููุง ุนุฏุฉ ุณููุงุชุ ูููุงู ุงุจุชุฏุฃ ุทุฑููู ุงูุฅุจุฏุงุนูุ ุญูุซ ูุดุฑ ุงููุซูุฑ ู
ู ุงููุตุต ุงููุตูุฑุฉ ูุงูุทูููุฉ ูุงูุฑูุงูุงุช ุฃูู
ูุง ูุฃุดูุฑูุง ุฑูุงูุชู ุงูู
ูุณููู ุงูุฃุนู
ูุ ุงูุชู ุชู
ุทุจุนูุง ูกูฅ ุทุจุนุฉ ุฃุซูุงุก ุญูุงุชู ูุชู
ุช ุชุฑุฌู
ุชูุง ูุฐูู ุฅูู ุงูุนุฏูุฏ ู
ู ุงููุบุงุช ุงูุฃุฌูุจูุฉ ูู ุญูููุง.
โฐ ูู ู
ุฌู
ูุนุฉ ู
ู ุงูุฅูุฌุงุฒุงุช ูุงูู
ุคููุงุช ุฃุจุฑุฒูุง โ ูุฑูุฉ ุงููู ููุตุต ุฃุฎุฑู โ ุงููุงุดุฑูู : โ ุฏุงุฑ ุงูู
ุฃู
ูู ููุชุฑุฌู
ุฉ ูุงููุดุฑ โ โฑ
ู
ู ูุตุต ูุฑูุงูุงุช ุนุงูู
ูุฉ ุงูุงุฏุจ ุงูุนุงูู
ู - ู
ูุชุจุฉ ุงููุชุจ ูุงูู
ูุณูุนุงุช ุงูุนุงู
ุฉ.