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Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human being soul, and in this group of 36 insightful lectures prepared by a frequently honored teacher legendary among educators in both the USA and Russia - you probe just as deeply into the extraordinary legacy that is Russian Literature itself. Professor Weil introduces anyone to masterpieces such as Tolstoy's War and Calmness, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Gogol's Dead Souls, Chekhov's The Seagull, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and a great many other great novels, stories, plays, and poems. In every, you plunge into more than 40 works by a dozen authors, from Aleksandr Pushkin in the 19th hundred years to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the 20th hundred years. You also investigate the foundation of Russian literature itself, which traces its lineage back to powerful epic poetry and beautiful renderings of the Bible into Slavic during the Middle Ages. Many of these works are treated in translation, but Professor Weil does something very unconventional in the literature-in-translation arena. For nearly every passage that he quotes in English, he reads an draw out in the original Russian, with a fluent accent and an actor's sense of theatre.
