Schedule (subject to change):
Jan. 20:
Introduction
Jan. 23: Leo Tolstoy, "Alyosha the Pot" and Maxim Gorky, "Recollections of Leo
Tolstoy" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, pp. 1-9 and
pp. 29-57. The first reading can be found at the following link: "Alyosha
the Pot." The second reading can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Jan. 25: Maxim Gorky, "The
Lower Depths"
Jan. 27: "
Maxim Gorky, "The
Lower Depths " (cont.) and Anton Chekhov, "The
Cherry Orchard
Jan. 30: Anton Chekhov, "The
Cherry Orchard" (Cont.) Quiz over the two plays.
Feb. 1: Ivan Bunin, "Light Breathing" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century
Russian Reader, 58-65.
Feb. 3: Ivan Bunin, "The Genteleman from San Francisco"
Feb. 6: Fyodor Sologub, "The
Wall and the Shadows"
("Light and Shadows")
Feb.
8: Nadezhda Teffi, "Time" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader,
66-73.
Feb. 10: Isaac Babel, selected stories from his Collected Stories. Click
here for a list of required stories.
Feb. 13: Isaac Babel, selected stories from his Collected Stories. Click
here for a list of required stories.
Feb. 15: Isaac Babel, selected stories from his Collected Stories. Click
here for a list of required stories.
Feb. 17: Isaac Babel, selected stories from his Collected Stories. Click
here for a list of required stories. Quiz over stories by Isaac Babel.
Feb. 20:
Introduction to Poetry. Read the works by Alexander Blok (74-78), Anna Akhmatova (111-115), Boris Pasternak (153-169), and Osip Mandelstam (169-186) in Brown, The Portable
20th-Century Russian Reader.
Feb. 22: Poetry.
Click the link and read the poems by Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Esenin, and Marina Tvetaeva.
Feb. 24:
Andrei Bely, from Petersburg in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century
Russian Reader, 79-89
Feb. 27: Velimir Khlebnikov "Nikolai" in Brown, The
Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 105-110.
March 1: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.
March 3: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.
March 6: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.
March 8: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We. Quiz over We.
March 10: Mid-term.
March 20: Aleksei Remizov, "Christ's
Godson"
from Copy Tech.
March 22: Andrei Platonov, "The Potudan River," The Portable 20th-Century
Russian Reader,116-152.
March 24: Andrei Platonov, "The Potudan River," The Portable 20th-Century
Russian Reader,116-152.
March 27: Four
stories by
Valentin Kataev
March
29: Ilya Ilf and Evgenii Petrov, "How
the Soviet Robinson was
Written."
March 31: Fyodor Gladkov, excerpt
from Cement from Copy Tech.
April 3:
Fyodor Gladkov, excerpt
from Cement from Copy Tech.
April 5: Mikhail Bulgakov, excerpt from The Master and Margarita in
Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 187-201.
April 7: Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog.
April 10: Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog.
April 12: Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog. Quiz over Heart of a Dog.
April 14:
Mikhail Zoshchenko, "Bees and People," and from Before Sunrise in Brown, The
Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 231-245.
April 17: Day of no classes.
April 19: Mikhail Zoshchenko,
"What
Good are Relatives," "The Aristocrat," and "The Bathhouse" from Copy Tech and Daniil Kharms, "Anecdotes about Pushkin's
Life" and "The Connection" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader,
414-417.
April 21: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian
Reader, 246-378 by this day you should read up to page 288.
April 24: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader,
246-378 by this day you should read up to page 336.
April 26: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian
Reader, by this day you should be finished with the reading (246-378).
April 28: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader,
246-378. Quiz over Envy.
May 1: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading. Chapters 1-7
May 3: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading. Chapters 8-15
May 5: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading. Chapters 16-the
end.
May 8:
Review
May 12: Final Exam, 1:30-4:00 pm.
