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Can you please provide more examples of Slavic literature? I am only aware of Russian authors. Any idea if the english translation of Witcher by Danusia Stok is

• BrandoElFollito 8y ago
  The Nobel prize winner W Szymborska wrote some beautiful poems. I usually find poetry self-adoring and usually completely unreadable by what I read of Szymborska was feeric.
  • lappet 8y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion, I will check out her work.
• jxub 8y ago
  > Any idea if the english translation of Witcher by Danusia Stok is good? I've just doublechecked that the official English translation is good indeed, I haven't got first hand knowledge though https://www.quora.com/I-intend-to-read-the-Witcher-books-but-see-a-lot-of-conflicting-opinions-regarding-which-is-better-the-official-or-fan-translation https://www.quora.com/I-intend-to-read-the-Witcher-books-but... My knowledge of Slavic literature limits mostly to the Polish and some Russian authors, despite that I can recommend a Czech satire book that I liked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk Other than that, Czeslaw Milosz for the poetry, Henryk Sienkiewicz has some great novels about the history of Poland (The Trilogy and The Teutonic Knights are damn hooking and intense), Zofia Kossak Szczucka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka) is another solid historical writer. I am aware however that my tastes in literature are somewhat eclectic. Russian Lit: Nikolai Gogol for the stories, Solzhenitsyn for the Gulag Archipelago, and of course War and Peace (Tolstoy) and Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky). Reserve some weeks for the last two though, heh ;) Any help you need, just shoot me an email (in the profile), but I'm not an expert by any means :P
  • x0x0 8y ago
    Don't miss _A Hero of Our Time_ by Lermontov. Plus, it's short!
    • lappet 8y ago
      Thank you, will do!
  • lappet 8y ago
    Thank you! I will definitely check those out :)
    • jxub 8y ago
      All pleasure is mine! Also, glad that you like the Life of Boris :D (in the blog post)!
      • lappet 8y ago
        Oh man, Boris is awesome, I watch his stuff almost every other day! Are you from Poland?
        • jxub 8y ago
          Yep. I was born there (in Silesia) but I'm living in Spain since I was ten.
          • lappet 8y ago
            Awesome
  • marttt 8y ago
    I think Leo Tolstoy might be fairly well known in the US due to "War and Peace" and, possibly, "Anna Karenina". But his nonfiction or autobiographical works deserve attention as well. I would highlight two of these: "The Kingdom of God is Within you" -- I think Mahatma Gandhi considered this to be one of the three most influential books for his philofophy of "nonviolent resistence". Even though Tolstoy was already considered a literary genius in his country, the Russian czar initially banned this book due to negative imagery of the Russian church. So I think it was first published in Germany or elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_Y... "A Confession" -- a short book that is somewhat related to the previous one; depicts young Tolstoy's "search for the meaning of life" (or, God). It had a huge impact on me (even though I read it first being 30+). This would be among my first recommendations for books to read when you're 20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession Also, this might give some more context to understand Tolstoy's nonfiction: https://libertarianchristians.com/2010/07/09/leo-tolstoy-against-the-state https://libertarianchristians.com/2010/07/09/leo-tolstoy-aga...
• piecu 8y ago
  I would recommend Boris Akunin (I suggest to start with Erast Fandorin series), I don't know whether he is known in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin