Oh yes, I really enjoyed reading them. Though I don't really like the main character;-))) At least in books he's too straightforward;-) Haven't seen the movies though.
One of the things I like about it was the whole integration of the magical world into the real world. Makes cool funny expression.
So, I take it as you watched the movies but haven't read the books? I would guess with film success they might be translated into English, but it's only a guess.
I know there were games in Moscow based on Night Watch, and they were happening during normal people's life, so with unsuspecting mundanes around;-))) That was part of fun for them, as they needed to hide it, just as the Others in books.
Hm, what comes immediately to mind when I hear "Russian novel" is mostly Tolstoy & Dostoevsky... War & Peace, Anna Karenina (I've read), Crime & Punishment (I've read), The Brothers Karamazov. Chekhov's short stories & plays (I've read The Lady with the Dog, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard), Pushkin's poems (I have Ruslan & Ludmila but haven't read it yet). I would totally love to name my son Ruslan but I don't think it would fly. Same with Diego.
I love The Cherry Orchard, it's a very wise play, though I'm afraid my understanding of its wisdom is rather unconventional;-) I've actually read a lot of Chekhov as at some point I became a fan of his short stories, but he often has that pessimistic view of life, probably because his own lfe wasn't easy.
Do you know that "Pushkin is our everything"?;-)))))
So, you go for Russian classics? Is it because you love classics, or you just love those classics, or jut because those are what your Russian teachers were telling you to read? *very curious*
I tend to go for classics, period. With the notable exception of fantasy. I just don't like modern fiction. Blah.
And in regards to them being specifically Russian classics, I think it's just a matter of what is considered important or good enough to translate and market over here. I think non-English speaking people probably only know our "big name" authors and iconic works, too. Like Shakespeare or Hemingway (much as I hate him) or Jane Austen.
Ironically, none of them were for any Russian class. I read C&P in high school for Honors English, read Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard in my first year of college for... I think it was an English class but I forget the exact name, listened to Anna Karenina on audiotape while I was pregnant, and read The Lady with the Dog at my current college in a Short Fiction class under the auspices of the English department.
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One of the things I like about it was the whole integration of the magical world into the real world. Makes cool funny expression.
So, I take it as you watched the movies but haven't read the books? I would guess with film success they might be translated into English, but it's only a guess.
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I have had someone suggest a modern Wolfgangs- meets- NightWatch game suggestion ;)
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*all of these were in translation
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I've actually read a lot of Chekhov as at some point I became a fan of his short stories, but he often has that pessimistic view of life, probably because his own lfe wasn't easy.
Do you know that "Pushkin is our everything"?;-)))))
So, you go for Russian classics? Is it because you love classics, or you just love those classics, or jut because those are what your Russian teachers were telling you to read? *very curious*
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And in regards to them being specifically Russian classics, I think it's just a matter of what is considered important or good enough to translate and market over here. I think non-English speaking people probably only know our "big name" authors and iconic works, too. Like Shakespeare or Hemingway (much as I hate him) or Jane Austen.
Ironically, none of them were for any Russian class. I read C&P in high school for Honors English, read Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard in my first year of college for... I think it was an English class but I forget the exact name, listened to Anna Karenina on audiotape while I was pregnant, and read The Lady with the Dog at my current college in a Short Fiction class under the auspices of the English department.
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