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The novel "The Gambler" (1866) occupies an exceptional place in Dostoevsky's work. Although the idea for this novel supposedly matured for a full three years, Dostoevsky dictated it almost in his breath, in just twenty-seven days.
The selection of titles of selected high school reading offered in this way is threefold in its thematic focus, which is seen in Proust in the old world, in Sholokhov in the new life, and in Kafka in the unreliable sign of man.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
"The Life of an Artist", by Ilya Gruzdev, is a biographical work that deals with the life and work of Maxim Gorky, one of the most important Russian writers and social reformers.
In addition to the autobiographical work "My Universities", this volume also contains the autobiographical stories The Watchman, Korolenko's Age, On the Harmfulness of Philosophy and On First Love.