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100 masterpieces of Russian literature you should read

From ancient tales to modern novels, we bring you a selection of books that can all be considered timeless classics. Many of them are part of

100 masterpieces of Russian literature you should read

From ancient tales to modern novels, we bring you a selection of books that can all be considered timeless classics. Many of them are part of

EBRD Literature Prize 2022: judges announced, open for submissions

The Paris Review - The Grace of Teffi - The Paris Review

, a newly translated selection of the Russian writer Teffi’s stories, which was published earlier this week by New York Review Books. Teffi. Photo courtesy of New York Review Books. There are writers who muddy their own water, to make it seem deeper. Teffi could not be more different: the water is entirely transparent, yet the bottom is barely visible. Georgy Adamovich It is not unusual for a writer to be pigeonholed, but few great writers have suffered from this more than Teffi. Several of her finest works are extremely bleak, but many Russians still know only the comic and satirical sketches she wrote during her first years as a professional writer, from 1901 until 1918. Few critics have recognized the full breadth of her human sympathy, her Chekhovian ability to write convincingly about people from every level of society: illiterate peasants, respectable bourgeois, monks and priests, eccentric poets, bewildered émigrés, and public figures ranging from Lev Tolstoy to Raspu

OPINION: Does Russian 'khamstvo' differ from general rudeness?

OPINION: Does Russian ‘khamstvo’ differ from general rudeness? Alena Repkina There are many things, words and meanings perceived as uniquely Russian. But we have doubts if ‘khamstvo’ is one of them. Khamstvo has long been perceived as a unique Russian phenomenon. It was even featured in our own extremely popular listicle ‘10 Russian words impossible to translate into English’.  Soviet emigre writer Sergei Dovlatov told a rumor about another famous Soviet emigre, writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his ‘This Untranslatable Khamstvo’ essay. Apparently, Nabokov struggled to define khamstvo to his American students studying Slavic studies at Cornell university. The words ‘arrogance’, ‘rudeness’ and ‘insolence’, which he tried to use, were simply not enough to encompass the many facets of the term. Dovlatov ultimately gave his own explanation: “Khamstvo is nothing other than rudeness, arrogance and insolence multiplied by impunity.”