Taras Buljba

Mrtve duše

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.

Taras Buljba

Djetinjstvo

Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.

Šinjel i druge pripovijetke

The story of Gogol is a story of tragic talent, mysticism and madness, of a manuscript that burned, of a nose and an overcoat, of an auditor and dead souls.

Jedna Swannova ljubav / Preobražaj / Čovjekova sudbina

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.

Moskva – Petuški

Venedikt Yerofeyev's postmodern prose poem is today considered a classic of new Russian literature. It is compared to Gogol and Kharms for its poetics of absurdity, satire, and metaphysical depth.