Announcing the new issue of Chtenia

[Douglas Marshall]

"103: Fathers and Children LYDIA RAZRAN STONE 

A fun, 24-line poem that summarizes this lengthy Dostoyevsky novel."


Did it upset Turgenev that Dostoevsky wrote a novel by that name also?

Douglas Marshall
 


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Announcing Issue 24 of "Chtenia: Readings from Russia". This issue's theme is "Dostoyevsky Bilingual" ~ a bilingual presentation (English on the left page, Russian on the right) of some of the author's lesser known, yet highly significant works. 

ISSUE 24 * Dostoyevsky Bilingual

6: The Many Faces of Fyodor Mikhailovich SARAH YOUNG 

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is known for huge, intense, philosophical works, but this reputation ignores the great variety of his writing. 


15: The Petersburg Feuilletons FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

A journalistic piece from 1847, in which Fyodor Mikhailovich lambasts "the dreamer" omnipresent in St. Petersburg life. 

:: Translation by Nora Favorov 


27: Letter Before Exile FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

A letter the author wrote to his brother, immediately before his transport into Siberian exile. 

:: Translation by Nora Favorov 


33: Masha is Lying on the Table FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

A diary entry Dostoyevsky wrote on the death of his first wife, which became an extraordinary and impassioned meditation on death, immortality and human relationships. 

:: Translation by Eugenia Sokolskaya 


47: The Crocodile FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

Dostoyevsky's hilarious story about a man swallowed by a crocodile, which was also a brilliant satire on political economy and the importation of Western ideas to Russia. 

:: Translation by Constance Garnett and Sarah Young 


97: Letter to Sofya FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

In this letter to his niece, Dostoyevsky describes the thinking behind Prince Myshkin, the central character in his novel The Idiot. 

:: Translation by Nora Favorov 


103: Fathers and Children LYDIA RAZRAN STONE 

A fun, 24-line poem that summarizes this lengthy Dostoyevsky novel. 


105: Vlas FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

This extract from The Writer's Diary tells the story of a peasant's religious conversion, which Dostoyevsky turns into a discussion of the nature of Russian peasants. 

:: Translation by Kenneth Lantz 


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Chtenia, founded in 2008, is a quarterly journal of Russian literature, memoir and quality readings in English translation. In its first six years of publication, Chtenia has published over 600 works by over 250 contributors.

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