The Dostoevsky Monument outside the Lenin Library, Moscow (1) |
As a bit of blog fun here
is an attempted rebrand of some of the Russian novels you may have heard of
complete, with their own flippant, pulpy blurbs:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - A prostitute enters the battle to save the doomed soul of a megalomaniac murderer.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - A prostitute enters the battle to save the doomed soul of a megalomaniac murderer.
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol – A mysterious confidence trickster purchases the souls of dead peasants as part of a needlessly complex get-rich-quick scheme.
War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy – Napoleon is rude to a Russian fanboy and some Moscow gets burned.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov – What links Pontius Pilate, a cat with a gun, a terrible poet and the early days of the Soviet Russia? Ask the guy with no head.
Petersburg by Andrei Bely – What a BBC4 documentary on the Russian revolution would look like if it was directed by David Lynch.
If those descriptions haven't wet your page-turning finger then nothing will.
(1) Pamyatnik dostoevskogo - Adam Baker - Taken from flickr under creative commons
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