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This is my first time reading any Russian leader(s) and I am amazed how much I have been missing by not reading Russian authors. This is filled with fantastic well written fleeting tales, they make you what to go out and buy more from they authors (and I have).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
At first all the tales are just depressing. Some memorably so, others humorously so, others still just morosely so. Many are about poverty, vices, the lusts of money, and the dread of the cold, or loneliness, oppression, and cruelty, but each of them seems to focus very fervently on the crappiness of life. They stay with you, and they keep pulling you along. Best of all, they can be taken in at part- most fleeting tales collections get tiring after three or four tales, here it’s possible to read them all in a sitting lacking getting tired of them.
But about 60% of the way through these very well written pieces you realize that these Russians know something that modern Western culture doesn’t know: people are rotten; and somehow that formerly depressing literature becomes a work of art. They are painting you a picture of life that you won’t hear, the truth that right down to the smallest child, when the veneer of life is stripped away people are just no excellent. Counter-intuitively, it’s very refreshing to see the honest truth played out in front of your imagination. These Russian writers, they *get* it, they make it hit home in a way that doesn’t take place very regularly from new books or television or movies. Alas, the writers are a post Christian bunch, so as a replacement for of celebrating their brokenness and the kindness of God they are left with a void, but unlike Camus who decides to fill his philosophy with nonsense words the Russian masters quietly abstain in favor of just showing you life through their eyes. They just stare at the void in humanity. They don’t clarify it, nor mourn it, nor fantasize on what might make it go away, nor do they really accept it, they just show you to it. They show you real life, a life lacking redemption, lacking long term goals, and it’s frankly brilliant.
Really it is. It’s a free download; what are you waiting for?
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
How can you go incorrect with this? Some of the fantastic classics from Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and a few additional surprising gems I’d never read before.
To read the Overcoat again, after about 20 years, was a right delight. There’s something so real, palpable and compelling about the clerk and how the tale unfolds…I can see why it’s a fantastic model for the fleeting tale form.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5