Understand me: I do not have time with things that have no soul.
louis aragon “j’ai rêvé si longtemps de toi que j’en ai perdu la parole” (i dreamt so much of you i lost my voice) vs paul éluard “j’étais si près de toi que j’ai froid près des autres” (i was so close to you i am cold around other people)
a list of shakespearean plays: hamlet; a midsummer’s night dream; macbeth; romeo and juliet; the tempest
requested by @drogonqueen
A short guide to Russian literature (novels/short stories/poetry/etc. worth reading)
folklore / fairy tales / 12th century
- Russian folk-tales by Alexander Afanasyev
- Primary Chronicle (history of Kievan Rus’ + slavic mythology)
- The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (epic poem)
- Krilof and his fables by Ivan Krylov (translated by William Ralston Shedden)
- Poor Liza by Nikolai Karamzin
- Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov
- Vasily Zhukovsky: poetry
- Alexander Pushkin. poems: [Ruslan and Lyudmila; The Gypsies; The Bronze Horseman; Eugene Onegin; The Little Tragedies (The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri, The Miserly Knight, A Feast in Time of Plague)]; prose: The Queen of Spades; The Captain’s Daughter; Dubrovsky; fairy tales: The Tale of Tsar Saltan; The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
- Mikhail Lermontov. poetry; dramas: Masquerade; Arbenin; poems: Demon; Borodino; prose: A Hero of Our Time
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- The Storm, The Snow Maiden, Without a Dowry by Alexander Ostrovsky
- Short stories (The Portrait, The Nose, The Overcoat) + Taras Bulba; Viy; Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Leo Tolstoy. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; After the Ball; Anna Karenina; War and Peace
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Humiliated and Insulted; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Demons; The Brothers Karamazov
- Anton Chekhov. plays: The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya; The Seagull; short stories: The Death of a Government Clerk; The Chameleon; The Student; Gooseberries; The Man in a Case; Ionych; The Lady with the Dog
- Dark Avenues; The Gentleman from San Francisco by Ivan Bunin
- The White Guard, Heart of a Dog, A Country Doctor’s Notebook, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- King, Queen, Knave; The Defens; Invitation to a Beheading; The Enchanter; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Anna Akhmatova. Poetry; Requiem
- Marina Tsvetaeva. Poetry
- Vladimir Mayakovsky. Poetry
She clenched her jaw to show him that she was not kind, would never be.
Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming.
Literature meme [3/3] genres
↳ poetryPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
-Khalil Gibran
While the other girls wore silk dresses, and a few had strange, gilded armor, Evangeline rises in an outfit of black leather. Jacket, pants, boots, all studded with hard silver. No, not silver. Iron. Silver is not so dull or hard. Her house cheers for her, all of them on their feet. She belongs to Ptomelus and the patriarch, but others cheer too, other families. They want her to be queen.
