Goodreads România discussion

În aprilie vă invit să citim împreună un roman rusesc, fie unul clasic, fie un titlu nou-nouț. Slavă domnului, avem de unde alege, literatura rusească a dat multe cărți memorabile, așa că sunt tare curios ce titluri o să propuneți.

Ca de obicei, fiecare dintre voi are la dispoziție două nominalizări și două susțineri, iar pe data de 12 o să trecem la vot.

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3 x Night Watch de Sergei Lukyanenko
3 x We de Yevgeny Zamyatin
2 x The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol de Nikolai Gogol
2 x Manichiură pentru mort de Darya Dontsova

1 x Three Apples Fell from the Sky de Narine Abgaryan
1 x Insemnarile unui tanar medic de Mikhail Bulgakov
1 x Other Russias de Victoria Lomasko
1 x Petersburg de Andrei Bely
1 x Părinţi şi copii de Ivan Turgenev
1 x Dragul meu ticalos de Darya Dontsova

Și ca să sparg gheața, două propuneri din partea mea:

Three Apples Fell from the Sky de Narine Abgaryan



In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate.

As they go about their daily lives – harvesting crops, making baklava, tidying houses – the villagers sustain one another through good times and bad. But sometimes all it takes is a spark of romance to turn life on its head, and a plot to bring two of Maran's most stubbornly single residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about...



Night Watch de Sergei Lukyanenko



Others. They walk among us. Observing.

Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko.

This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world.

Sustin Lukianenko, de curiozitate pentru ce am ezitat sa citesc initial pentru ca nu ma atragea subiectul vampirilor.

Propun Povestiri de Nikolai Gogol : The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol pentru ca sint foarte bine cotate si au influentat multiple generatii de autori.

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."

More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.

These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years--one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.

Si eu sustin Lukianenko. Am vazut filmul acum multi ani si chiar cred ca ar fi interesant de citit.

As propune de Yevgeny Zamyatin We

Este o carte SF destul de scurta de vreo 230 de pagini scrisa in anii '20 care este practic inspiratia pentru 1984 al lui Orwell.

"The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression."

Vin si eu cu doua propuneri:
- Însemnările unui tînăr medic/A Young Doctor's Notebook In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo.

- Other Russias From a renowned graphic artist and activist, an incredible portrait of life in Russia today

Sustin: We

Salutare!

Eu propun asa:

Petersburg
"History, culture and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg society in an exhilarating search for the identity of a city and, ultimately, Russia itself. 'The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia.'—Anthony Burgess"

Părinţi şi copii
"Pãrinţi şi copii, considerat de criticã cel mai reuşit roman al lui Turgheniev, a provocat aprinse discuţii contradictorii, legate de conflictul dintre generaţia pãrinţilor, care se inspirã din idealurile umaniste tradiţionale, şi cea rebelã a fiilor, materialistã, dezamãgitã şi lipsitã de iluzii."

Sustin Gogol.

Salutare tuturor, eu propun Daria Dontova - “Dragul meu ticălos” și “Manichiură pentru mort.”

Nu mă deranjează să lărgim un pic tematica și să includem și propunerile de povestiri făcute până acum.

Susțin Manichiură pentru mort și We.

Aș vrea și eu să citesc Petersburg, dar din recenzii se pare că e destul de dificilă, ar merge poate mai bine la Buddy Reads...

Gabriel wrote: "Susțin Manichiură pentru mort și We.

Aș vrea și eu să citesc Petersburg, dar din recenzii se pare că e destul de dificilă, ar merge poate mai bine la Buddy Reads..."

Ma bucur, Gabi! Probabil nu va fi foarte votata si mi-ar chiar placea sa o citesc impreuna cu cineva si sa o discutam dupa aia. Plus ca, asa, nu vom avea limita de timp :)

Gabriel wrote: "Susțin Manichiură pentru mort și We.

Aș vrea și eu să citesc Petersburg, dar din recenzii se pare că e destul de dificilă, ar merge poate mai bine la Buddy Reads..."

Nu mi s-a parut dificil Petersburg, chiar merita incercata

Cum alte propuneri nu au mai fost făcute, vă invit acum la vot!