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The Carriage by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 60Year: 1836The action unfolds in a boring provincial town that is brought to life by the arrival of a cavalry regiment and a brigadier general. The main character is a local landowner, retired cavalry officer Pifagor Pifagorovich Chertokutsky, who is known for his boasting. At a dinner hosted by the general, after several glasses of punch, […]
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The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 224Year: 1981The book is structured as 11 compromise stories, each featuring an official newspaper article from Soviet Estonia followed by the true account of the absurd events that led to its writing. The author, a journalist, describes falsifications and absurdities in the newspaper office. One story details a frantic hunt for a suitable infant for an […]
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 62Year: 1877The story centers on an unnamed narrator, the self-proclaimed “ridiculous man,” who has fallen into a state of total nihilism and indifference. Convinced that nothing in the world matters, he decides to commit suicide. However, a chance encounter with a distraught young girl who begs him for help for her dying mother stirs a confusing […]
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The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 140Year: 1880The story takes place in 16th-century Seville during the Spanish Inquisition. Jesus Christ returns quietly to Earth, where His miracles are instantly recognized by the adoring populace. His presence, however, immediately threatens the established order of the Church. The ninety-year-old Grand Inquisitor, the all-powerful cardinal of the city, orders Christ’s immediate arrest. That night, the […]
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The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 176Year: 1990A writer becomes obsessed with the “contamination” of language by useless letters and meanings, leading him to found a secret society of linguistic purifiers. The club’s goal is the radical “murder” of superfluous characters and ideas for the sake of purifying thought. However, this obsession leads to madness and a dangerous simplification of thought itself. […]
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The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 80Year: 1842A young and destitute artist, Andrei Chartkov, buys a mysterious portrait of an old moneylender in a shop. The moneylender’s eyes possess a terrifying, almost lifelike intensity. Chartkov soon discovers a hidden cache of gold in the portrait’s frame. Yielding to temptation, he abandons his true calling and begins painting fashionable, soulless portraits on commission, […]
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The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 90Year: 1832At the center of the plot is the love of the blacksmith and icon painter Vakula for the most beautiful girl in the village, Oksana, the daughter of the wealthy Cossack Chub. The proud and headstrong Oksana mocks the enamored Vakula and sets an impossible condition: she will marry him only if he brings her […]
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The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 168Year: 1990The aging and immortal Baron Munchausen returns to a world that has mechanized imagination and rationalized fantasy. He struggles to prove to the new society that his incredible, impossible memories are real. The Baron’s eternal life turns into a tragic quest for meaning and belief in the miraculous, because in a world with no room […]
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The Sevastopol Sketches by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 190Year: 1856This cycle consists of three essays written by Tolstoy as a participant in the defense of Sevastopol. The work is one of the first examples of “trench truth” in Russian literature, showing war without romanticization. “Sevastopol in December” takes the reader directly to the hospital, where the unpretentious heroism and calmness of simple Russian soldiers […]
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The Squabble by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 120Year: 1835A satirical tale about how two inseparable neighbors and landowners, Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich, become enemies over an absolute trifle. The heroes’ friendship collapses when Ivan Ivanovich attempts to trade his neighbor for an old rifle, and Ivan Nikiforovich refuses and calls him a “goose” (gusak). This single word triggers an absurd war. Trivial […]
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The Steel Flea by Nikolai Leskov
Page Count: 80Year: 1881The story is a satirical folk tale that begins when Emperor Alexander I and his Cossack aide Platov visit England. The English craftsmen, wishing to impress the Tsar, present a marvelous, minute steel flea (a clockwork trinket) that can dance. After Alexander’s death, the next Tsar, Nicholas I, challenges his own countrymen to outperform this […]
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The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 144Year: 1986Upon emigrating, the journalist managed to take with him only one blue Finnish suitcase. Inside were eight completely random objects, each of which serves as the key to a separate, often absurd and tragicomic story from his past life. Among these relics are a decent but worn suit of a deceased bandit; crepe women’s stockings, […]
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