I know that Nedorosol' is something that one of my professors went crazy over, but everyone else couldn't stand it, either aesthetically or in terms of impact. I thought it was best to leave out.
Taras Bul'ba was included, in that it is one of the four stories in Mirgorod (the others being Starosvetskie Pomeshchiki, Kak Ivan Ivanovich Possorilsya s Ivanom Nikiforovichom and Viy).
Dubrovsky is an interesting story, but it felt like there was something missing, like the story was supposed to be longer and was finished quickly, cutting a novel down to a novella.
Taras Bul'ba was included, in that it is one of the four stories in Mirgorod (the others being Starosvetskie Pomeshchiki, Kak Ivan Ivanovich Possorilsya s Ivanom Nikiforovichom and Viy).
Dubrovsky is an interesting story, but it felt like there was something missing, like the story was supposed to be longer and was finished quickly, cutting a novel down to a novella.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
So Vladimir Putin wants a canon of 100 Russian books for all Russians to be required to read
- 26/01/2012 01:21:44 PM
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I can come up with 75 without any problem
- 26/01/2012 05:10:47 PM
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I was wondering if you'd have to include Sholokhov there 
- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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I think it's probably safe to conclude from that list...
- 26/01/2012 08:15:35 PM
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Considering his first 20...
- 26/01/2012 09:30:10 PM
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Oh, nevermind, I'd overlooked his plays there on the 16th position. Ignore what I said.
- 26/01/2012 09:42:03 PM
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It was more in chronological order, rather than in terms of quality
- 26/01/2012 11:35:10 PM
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It was that obvious? *NM*
- 26/01/2012 11:29:06 PM
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Apparently not for me
- 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM
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The only Sorokin I care to read is Pitirim Sorokin.
- 26/01/2012 11:39:39 PM
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Pelevin being the exception?
- 26/01/2012 11:49:18 PM
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"SNUFF" is coming out in English in February already?
- 27/01/2012 12:04:16 AM
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good list
- 29/01/2012 09:06:28 AM
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I studiously avoided Fonvizin.
- 31/01/2012 08:37:04 PM
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Zamyatin? *NM*
- 30/01/2012 10:17:29 AM
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What did you want to ask about Zamyatin? *NM*
- 31/01/2012 08:38:31 PM
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I suspect she, like me, read a little too fast and wrongly thought she'd found an omission. *NM*
- 02/02/2012 06:42:22 PM
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I'm more interested in how this would be enforced
- 27/01/2012 02:39:15 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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