What was Soviet literature like?
What was Soviet literature like?
Brandon Hill
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Easton Gomez
idk dude they have books like that at the library lol
Leo Clark
I dunno. Are any pro-Soviet writers highly regarded?
Kevin Fisher
Pro-Soviet writers aren’t the writers of the Soviet Union. Plenty of pro-Soviet writers are well regarded. In English it is mostly essayists.
Soviet Literature was a mixed bag. zhadanovishchina didn’t help. Mayakovsky is normally pointed as a highlight of early Soviet literature.
Brody Brooks
Authoritarianism gets super paranoid around artists, so bland Soviet realism and banned/censored books.
Gross man gets a lot of praise around here
Wyatt Rivera
Sollys first circle and cancer ward are good.
John Moore
the short story The Cave by Zamyatin is hilariously depressing
Landon Nelson
This guy was a pretty good short story writer. Unfortunately he didn’t have a long career because the cheka shot him
Zachary Moore
Nabokov satirized the uninspired ideological product in the very beginning (in The Triumph of Virtue).
As for the real literature, how do you count Soviet citizens who wrote really anti-Soviet works? Soviet citizens who couldn't care less about the country in their works? Those of them who were still considered anti-Soviet for that lack of attitude? Soviet writers who enjoyed the praise of establishment, and happened to be quite critical sometimes, intending or pretending to fix problems of Socialist society on its way to Communism? It seems quite stupid to group books by their relation to some outside ideological position.
Robert Flores
The Naked Year by Boris Pilnyak is a great modernist account of the Civil War
Carter Scott
my mom (she's 60 now) used to read most of her books in samizdat, aka illegally published form, as one of her relatives worked in publishing field and knew the right people.
most of the notorous soviet writers, the ones praised today, were prosecuted or kindly told to shut up.
Jonathan Murphy
Anything and everything by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, probably the best sci-fi you'll ever read with tons of subtleties and deeper meaning. Dovlatov is good but probably loses quite a lot in translation, because the humor is tied so strongly to the absurdities of communism and the culture of bydlo/prisoner language. Gorky is good. We by Zamyatin is an earlier 1984. Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov is amazing, as is the rest of his books.
The best authors either wrote before Stalin (and were purged), or were censored until everything released as a wave during the 80's.
>As for the real literature, how do you count Soviet citizens who wrote really anti-Soviet works? Soviet citizens who couldn't care less about the country in their works?
Ech, you seem to forget that the wave of amazing Russian literature that everyone praises from the 1860-90's was also censored and blocked by Nicholas I and his Third Section, and tons of writers were sent to Siberia for criticizing the conservative order. Censorship and the need for an outlet results in good literature.
Christian Murphy
Honestly pretty good. A takeover by a totalitarian government was probably one of the best things to happen to Russian literature, and I say this without joking. It's not always the case that a major catastrophe influences culture for the better of course, WWII for example was one of the absolute worst things to happen to literature
John Richardson
based and redpilled. I've read how some authors had to hide their political beliefs in the form of fiction stories to push their criticisms. I think that (keep in mind i haven't really branched away from russian literature) russia has produced some of the best literature. I want to explore literature from other countries, probably will look into some of the writers from Latin America, or Asia but im stuck on the greeks.
But yeah, russia is based af.
Jason Taylor
They got some decent stuff in there
I liked Master and Marguerita and Konstantin Simonovs war stuff
John Cox
Grossman is great
also Buľhakov of course
Brody Perry
Not as great as XIX century Russian literature but still pretty good.
>all these meme authors
Why no one but slavs on Yea Forums know about Ilf and Petrov is beyond me.
Gabriel Carter
>>e-everything is fine in our g-glorious republic beloved readers!
>>I-I'm so glad that as a writer I received some extra bread this sunday! Our glorious country really defends and glorify the arts!
>>n-no! I'm completelly free to write whatever I want Even If the only real employer and publisher is the state I s-swear!
>>here's a book I've written about the p-poverty, oppression and s-struggles of the poor comrades of the western european slave states under América's p-power!
>>p-please clap.
Christopher Reed
not true
Hudson Ward
Jack Ward
Hei svenskjævel, lær deg å rotere bildene dine. Sage.
Christopher Lopez
>114 years and Norge is still salty
Landon Nelson
[REDACTED] and [revisioned], mostly
Ian Ross
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