The best book(s) written in your country.

>>54869262
Lazarillo de Tormes

divina commedia.

It is believed that it is "Crime and punishment" by Dostoevsky, but I couldn't even finish it in school. "War and peace" and "The Master and Margarita" are even more boring.

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>>54869357

>>54869435

>It is believed that it is "Crime and punishment" by Dostoevsky
no silly, Eugene Onegin is the considered the pinnacle of rus lit, it's all downhill from there

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>>54869262

>>54869465
Fuck off goofy

>>54869579
Ah truly the masterpiece of the English language. I remember reading that for senior year. Took almost an entire semester but it was worth it.

>>54869435

>"The Master and Margarita"
>boring

nigger, I will cut you

>>54869435
>The Master and Margarita

that one is great actually

Karamazovi Brothers by F.Dostoevskiy.

Röda Rummet by Strindberg maybe, I'm not big on swedish literature to be honest.

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Especially the blue one.

Tragedy of Man, probably

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Ivo got nobel, this is his masterpeace.

>>54869262
Un roi sans divertissement - Jean Giono

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>>54869262
Grande Sertão Veredas.

>>54870316
dum dum dum dum dum

>>54870435
Should I read it lad?

>>54869864
>liking Dom Casmurro better than O Alienista
Please turn yourself in to the authorities

>>54870450
Not him, but give it a go. I tried but gave up half way through

>>54870477
Already did, m8. I'm currently in jail and posting from the phone I smuggled in my ass.

>>54870450
m8 its the best
best english book ever imo

>>54870584
I don't want to be bested again like when I tried to read the divine comedy. I'll give it a good try though.

>>54869719
>>54869725
I can't understand how Bulgakov could write such mystic shit after Dog's heart. This one is truly masterpiece. It's a pity that you couldn't understand it because you need to know historical context of beginning of the 20th century. Same reason I've had only a few slight smiles while reading "The aventures of brave soldier Shweik".

Don Quijote.

It's also the best book ever written so we won.

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>>54871061

>>54869262
>Peer e Kamil sy Aab e Hayat tak
>Shahab Nama

>>54870316
it seems that we have the winner of this thread

>>54871489
Written by the world's greatest troll
Guy was probably like "Man wouldn't it be fucking hilarious if I actually convinced everyone about a new testament and Jesus coming to America?!"

THEN THEY ACTUALLY FUCKING BELIEVED HIM THE MORONS
OOPS SORRY I MEANT MORMONS

>>54871539
Well, you remember that phrase by L. R. Hubbard saying why he established Scientology, so Muricans had at least one similar troll more.

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Ranko Marinković - Kiklop (Cyclops)

other gems:
Marko Marulić - Judita
Ivan Gundulić - Osman
Miroslav Krleža - Hrvatski bog Mars (Croatian God Mars)
Milutin Cihlar Nehajev - Bijeg (The Escape)
Antun Šoljan - Kratki Izlet (Short Trip)

>>54869435
Reading "War and Peace" right now, 100 pages in and Napolean was mentioned only four times. I thought the book was about the napoleonic wars but until now it only talked about the russian nobility.

>>54871962
yeah same here reading to kill a mockingbird right now.
not a single mockingbird has been murdered so far, huge dissapointment

Who have read "Demons" by Dostoyevsky? how are Your impressions?

>>54872118
You mean "Biesy"? For me it was much more interesting than "Crime and Punishment"

>>54872319
Yes. Sounds like "Biesy". But in english wiki it "Demons" - not correct at general. in russian language "demons" are higher than "biesy" in hierarchy of hell. smth like that.

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>>54869262

"Can life prevail" by Pentti Linkola

>>54870584
pleb

>>54872319
Did You understand the background of the book story as a "prophecy" of 1917 revolution in Russia? Interesting to know what people abroad think abou it?

>>54869262
Can't think of a single book from my country, but the best german is Mein Kampf

>>54869262
Too many to choose

>>54871539
Muhammed did it first

>>54872651
>Did You understand the background of the book story as a "prophecy" of 1917 revolution in Russia?
Yes, but I was just after reading "Istoki i smysl' russkogo kommunizma" by Bierdiayev, also what you wrote is the most common interpretation among Polish specialists in Eastern Slavic literature so it's obvious that averyone understands it this way.

Similar case - "Zapiski iz miertvogo doma" - one of our writers - Herling-Grudziński - wrote his book about gulag and one of its characters commits suicide after reading "Zapiski" so in Polish interpretations "Zapiski" are like some kind of prophecy about gulag.

>>54872459
We have the same word in Polish - bies, but it's literally "devil", just more archaic, that's why "demons" sounds wrong, just as you wrote - bies is a kind of minor wicked devil, while demon is more malicious.

The Zamonia Series by Walter Moers tbqh lads

At the least we got Knut Hamsun. If we are to gauge the response of Russians

>>54869579
>What I wanted: Horror
>What I got: Weak existential dread

>>54872954
I see You have good background at all)) By the way if there is some good translate to english(or other languages) of book-memoir "Special operation.Lubyanka and Kreml. 1930-1950 years" by Pavel Sudoplatov - I recommend to read it. Most of mentioned books here are only fixtion. But that book is how life was.

>>54873805
>"Special operation.Lubyanka and Kreml. 1930-1950 years"
Thanks, I will check it, I know Sudoplatov, but not as a writer so it will be interesting.

>>54874076
Sudoplatov - man without convictions at all. Good "material" for any authority.

Les Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
Stylistically perfect

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Right now I would say this. But my opinion is bound to change in time, as it has already

>>54869435
I thoroughly enjoyed The Idiot, tbqh.

>>54870435
how good is that?

>>54871061
bretty good, but definitely not the best.

>>54870450
It's popular here

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>>54871061
>calling book "Donkey Hot"

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>>54869262
Andric is the most famous local novelist as he is th eonly noble prize winner. he is awright i suppose.

Guys, what would you recommend to read for english learner? I need some good books written in modern english, but I haven't been interested in modern literature at all.

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>>54871343
>Shahab Nama
kek, first I thought that you mean Shahnama, that Persian epic poem

>>54874895
What genres do you like?

>>54869262
wish i knew

Memed, my Hawk by Yaşar Kemal
just like in the dank meme

>>54875175
kek

>>54875015
Scifi, adventures, detectives(I read all Sherlock Holmes and almost all works Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but in russian, is it ok in English for language learning?), but I'm open for something new.

>>54875249
>almost all works Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of course.

>>54869262
Pirandello's novels

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The book that won Iceland a Nobel prize

all of my posts

>>54874827
???

It doesn't translate to that.

>>54875249
is you like sci-fi, then maybe try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_%28novel_series%29
I read it and aside from some mild homo-propaganda it's a quite entertaining piece of space-opera, plus language is rather "clear"

>>54877531
>is you
if you, izvinitie

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One hundred years of solitude or Cien Años de Soledad

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Alexander Kuprin

The Duel
The Pit

Last one is so based, I can't tell why it is so underrated. It might be a quite few people know about it.

Should I learn Russian to read classic Russian literature? I know that Russia is very well known for their authors

>>54878050

You might get exhausted doing it. I've never read a single English traslation, but hope it's ok.

>>54878050
Yes, because muh Russian soul.
Reading translation is like Jewish joke:
- I don't get why people like the Beatles. They are bad, they burr and false.
- But how did you get to their concert?!
- I was not, my neighbour Moshe sang me over the phone.

>>54869894
Magnificent book.

I hate every br book. They are either about drought shitty places so arid you feel thirsty reading about it or some place in Rio.

All of them are very well written though.

The Bible

>>54877963
What about "Olesya"
It's really good as well

>>54871539
You can say anything you want about the gospel but the church (actually a club) in itself is god tier. Most of them are successful and have stable domestic lives, in opposite of other christian denominations.

>>54875433
>French in charge of """"""literature""""""
Thanks to your stupid books I share a name with a bunch of kids named after a Brad Pitt movie.

La vida breve.

Onetti

>>54876048
That's what it sounds like in English when pronounced aloud

"The misadventures of Alonso Ramirez" by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
The first novel written in the Americas.

>>54873589
Gay desu

What do Brits think of "Robinson Crusoe"? I read it in English and liked it very much. Does it still hold up?