Russian Literature in Translation I: Pushkin to Dostoevsky

Survey of Russia's literary masterpieces of the early and mid-19th century, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky. From Pushkin's celebrated poem "The Bronze Horseman" and his novel in verse 'Eugene Onegin' to Gogol's grotesque and fantastic Peterburg tales and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' we will discuss questions of national identity and Empire, individual vs. the state, as well as other moral, political and philosophical issues that shaped Russian classical texts. Lectures and discussion. No knowledge of Russian is required.