Schedule (subject to change)

 Aug. 29: Introduction

Aug. 31: Leo Tolstoy, "Alyosha the Pot" and Maxim Gorky, "Recollections of Leo Tolstoy" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, pp. 1-9 and pp. 29-57.

Sept. 5: Maxim Gorky, "The Lower Depths" in course materials (from Copy Tech).

Sept. 7: Anton Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard" in course materials (from Copy Tech). Quiz over the two plays.

Sept. 12: Ivan Bunin, "Light Breathing" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 58-65.

Sept. 14: Fyodor Sologub, "The Wall and the Shadows" ("Light and Shadows") in course materials and Nadezhda Teffi, "Time" in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 66-73.

Sept. 19: Isaac Babel, selected stories from his Collected Stories.  Click here for a list of required stories.

Sept. 21: Isaac Babel selected stories from his Collected Stories.  Click here for a list of required stories.  Quiz over Babel's stories.

Sept. 26 and Sept. 28: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.

Oct. 3: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We. Quiz over We.

Oct. 5: Introduction to Poetry.

Oct. 10: Poetry. I will assign selections from the Reader and other selections can be found in the materials from Copy Tech.

Oct. 12: Andrei Bely, from Petersburg in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 79-89.

Oct. 17: Mid-term Oct. 17.

Oct. 19: Aleksei Remizov, "Christ's Godson" in course materials from Copy Tech.

Oct. 24: Andrei Platonov, "The Potudan River," 116-152.

Oct. 26: Fyodor Gladkov, excerpt from Cement in course materials from Copy Tech.

Oct. 31: Mikhail Bulgakov, excerpt from The Master and Margarita in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 187-201.

Nov. 2: Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog.

Nov. 7: Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog. Quiz over Heart of a Dog.

Nov. 9: Mikhail Zoshchenko, "Bees and People," from Before Sunrise in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 231-245, and "What Good are Relatives," "The Aristocrat," and "The Bathhouse" in course materials from Copy Tech.

Nov. 14: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 246-378.

Nov. 16: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, 246-378.

Nov. 21: Yuri Olesha, Envy in Brown, The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader, pp. 246-378. Quiz over Envy.

Nov. 28: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading.

Nov. 30: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading.

Dec. 5: Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading.