Reading path
The Russian Soul
A literature built on extremes. Absurdist comedy gives way to psychological torment, which gives way to the deepest moral questions any tradition has dared to ask. The Russian tradition has a reputation for heaviness, but what lives inside it is something closer to radical honesty: about suffering, about love, about the soul's refusal to settle for easy answers. This path doesn't comfort. It transforms.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin, 1833
- 2. The OvercoatNikolai Gogol, 1842
- 3. The NoseNikolai Gogol, 1836
- 4. Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol, 1842
- 5. Zapovit (My Testament)Taras Shevchenko, 1845
- 6. A Hero of Our TimeMikhail Lermontov, 1840
- 7. First LoveIvan Turgenev, 1860
- 8. Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev, 1862
- 9. Bezhin MeadowIvan Turgenev, 1851
- 10. OblomovIvan Goncharov, 1859
- 11. Notes From the UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
- 12. Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
- 13. The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- 14. The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky, 1869
- 15. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, 1869
- 16. Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, 1877
- 17. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
- 18. The KissAnton Chekhov, 1887
- 19. The Lady with the DogAnton Chekhov, 1899
- 20. Ward No. 6Anton Chekhov, 1892
- 21. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
- 22. The Master & MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov, 1967
- 23. LolitaVladimir Nabokov, 1955
- 24. Pale FireVladimir Nabokov, 1962
- 25. Speak MemoryVladimir Nabokov, 1951
- 26. Life and FateVasily Grossman, 1980
- 27. DemonsFyodor Dostoevsky, 1872
- 28. One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962
- 29. PetersburgAndrei Bely, 1913
- 30. Family HappinessLeo Tolstoy, 1859
- 31. The White GuardMikhail Bulgakov, 1925