Russian Literature Book Club
 

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Please utilize this survey to share your preferences for our Russian Literature Book Club. All questions are optional. Please submit only one copy of this survey, and email additional items to the group coordinator via Meetup.com.

1. Your Name:

2. Which of these works do you have a specific interest in reading, and which have you already read?

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of works we may cover -- it is meant to provide a start for the purpose of this survey. this will help us select each book as well as the supplemental short readings each week.

 Interested In ReadingHave Read
The Minor (play) Fonvizin, 1782
Selection of classic fables by Krylov, 1807-1812
Woe from Wit (play) Griboedov, 1823
Eugene Onegin (novel in verse) Pushkin, 1825-1832
The Captain's Daughter (novel) Pushkin, 1836
Collection of poetry by Pushkin
A Hero of Our Time (novel) Lermontov, 1839
Dead Souls (novel) Gogol, 1842
Rudin (novel) Turgenev, 1857
Oblomov (novel) Goncharov, 1859
Fathers and Sons (novel) Turgenev, 1862
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (novella) Dostoevsky, 1846
Notes from the Underground (novel) Dostoevsky, 1864
Crime and Punishment (novel) Dostoevsky, 1866
The Gambler (novel) Dostoevsky, 1867
The Idiot (novel) Dostoevsky, 1869
The Possessed (novel) Dostoevsky, 1872
The Brothers Karamazov (novel) Dostoevsky, 1881
The Enchanted Wanderer (short fiction) Leskov, 1873
War and Peace (novel) Tolstoy, 1865-69
Anna Karenina (novel) Tolstoy, 1875-77
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (novella) Tolstoy, 1886
Resurrection (novel) Tolstoy, 1899
The Sea Gull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters (plays) Chekhov, 1896/1901
Collection of short stories by Chekhov
The Mother (novel) Gorky, 1907
My Childhood, (novel) Gorky, 1916
Requiem and other poetry by Ahmatova (female writer), 1910-1940
The Master and Margarita (novel) Bulgakov, 1928
Foundation Pit (novel) Platonov, 1930
Doctor Zhivago (novel) Pasternak, 1957
Lolita (novel) Nabokov, 1955
The Gift (novel) Nabokov, 1963
The Original of Laura (novel) Nabokov, posthumous publish Nov 2009
The Compromise (novel) Dovlatov, 1981
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story (novel) Dovlatov, 1982
The Clay Machine-Gun (novel) Pelevin 2002

3. Please list your top three choices for the group:

4. If you were not at our initial meetup, please share your expectations for this group and what you hope to gain:

5. Help us determine the appropriate options to offer in terms of reading volume.

At what pace would you like to read initially?

6. Our Meetups are currently scheduled Sundays at 4:00 pm, every two weeks. Do you have another preference for our meeting time?

7. Any other comments, questions, or suggestions you would like to offer:

Thank you for taking time to complete this survey. Please stay tuned via Meetup.com for each week's reads and upcoming activities.
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