To: nickcarraway
I remember having to read Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in college. It wasn’t bad. Although, I have to admit, I found Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” much more amusing.
2 posted on
06/28/2017 10:15:52 PM PDT by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: vladimir998
Yes, Gogol is even better. The Nose is great, but The Overcoat is the most influential story in all of Russian literature. Dead Souls may be funniest book you will ever read.
To: vladimir998
My area was musicology so I think of Onegin as a Tchaikovsky opera, the only opera AFAIK with a birthday aria.
7 posted on
06/29/2017 1:34:08 AM PDT by
chajin
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