Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.

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I watched Drive My Car a few nights ago on HBO/Max and most enjoyed how it seamlessly uses so many languages throughout: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Korean Sign Language, English, and silence.

Using Uncle Vanya to echo the storyline, it's an interesting juxtaposition of theater and film, and how they can relate to life.

Forgiving oneself is critical, because we're all deeply flawed.

Your possessions will turn you into the possessed.

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The House of the Dead & Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2019

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead.

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Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends, 1917

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.

https://archive.org/details/lettersoffyodorm00dostiala

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History has its layers and facts might be damned, but that’s what myths are made of. There are also onions.

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Today in Writing History December 15, 1905: The Pushkin House was established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin, (6/6/1799–2/10/1837). Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He was influenced by Enlightenment writers and thinkers, like Diderot and Voltaire. He spoke out in support of social reform, and wrote poems, like “Ode to Liberty,” leading to the government exiling him from the capital. In 1920 the Pushkin House was renamed the Institute of New Russian Literature, with the main objective of preparing authoritative "academic" editions of works by Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and others.

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I like Dostoevsky the best. Then Gogol, Bulgakov & Chernyshevsky.

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Today in Labor History November 16, 1849: Russian authorities gave a death sentence to author Fyodor Dostoevsky for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group called the Petrashevsky Circle. He and his colleagues were lined up before the firing squad when, at the last minute, a cart arrived with a letter from the Tsar, commuting their sentence. He still had to serve 4 years hard labor in Siberia. Dostoevsky alludes to his experience before the firing squad in his 1868-1869 novel, “The Idiot.”

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Everyone should read #Dostoevsky

“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”

— Lev Shestov, In Job’s Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

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Read The #Brothers #Karamazov by #Fyodor #Dostoevsky. Huge book and effort by the author. A good read requiring time, ofcourse.

http://srinicame.blogspot.com/2024/08/read-brothers-karamazov.html

Spent most of the day finishing Dostoevsky's The Idiot. This was my third time reading it; the last time was more than 20 years ago. I was disappointed for most of the read (which is extra disappointing because I often tell people this is one of my very favorite books), but the final 150 pages really makes up for the other 450, I think. It's still one of my favorite books.

Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #gogol #russia #ukraine #fiction #satire #surrealism #kafka #dostoevsky #literature #books #writer #author #courruption #kafka #punk @bookstadon

I think I may start reading #Dostoevsky (and #Chekhov and #Gogol, et al) again, because I suspect I will really vibe with the themes of social alienation in a crushingly indifferent world.

#RussianLit is the most thematically appropriate stuff I can think of for this apocalypse.

#Existential angst is navel gazing through a metaphysical microscope.

As you grow, if you grow, you will find your now seemingly profound ramblings are not new nor particularly insightful except to you.

Infants find their own toes to be fascinating for awhile, too.

A list of #authors to pull self-absorbed angry young men out of the Slough of Despond:

#Kafka
#HarukiMurakami
#JohnFowles
#Dostoevsky
#JohnNichols
#JohnIrving
#TomRobbins
#DouglasAdams
#NealStephenson
#WilliamGibson
#JDSalinger

Zeitgeist. #Dostoevsky as a reason for war

https://medium.com/@Ukrostap/zeitgeist-dostoevsky-as-a-reason-for-war-cb5ab6351ed2

...Russian media almost have a quota on silly Ukrainians, but we were lucky here. It was a mere mockery, which we were nevertheless allowed. More than a hundred stateless ethnic groups incorporated into Russian Federation have no such luxury. Russian mass culture, which propagates a military cult, is deeply racist...