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Indeed, Pushkin’s cartoonish omnipresence is one of the wonderful things about Russian literary culture.
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
The Master And Margarita
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‘I know, Nikitushka, ’ I’d say, ‘where else can he be if not with the Lord God, only he isn’t here, with us, Nikitushka, he isn’t sitting here with us like before!’
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
pernicious,
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
Shvarts’s face with its British-style mustachios and the slender figure he cut in his coattails had, as ever, an elegant solemnity, and this solemnity, always at odds with his playful spirit, here was rather piquant. Or so it seemed to Pyotr Ivanovich.
Leo Tolstoy • The Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
Queimar os próprios escritos, os rompantes de insanidade, a vida reclusa e a matriz de um humor permeado pelo desespero e pelo absurdo associam necessariamente Gontcharóv a Gógol. Escritores concentrados no mundo russo e nas perspectivas históricas de seu tempo, suas obras alcançaram o século XX e outros países, com a capacidade de inspirar inovaçõ
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