WRIT 125 10 - Great Short Stories from Russia

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Wellesley College

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Pankenier (Russian) Russian literature has given the world some of the best stories ever told, and this course surveys two centuries' worth of them. Someone once quipped that all of twentieth-century Russian literature came out of Nikolai Gogol's ?Nose.? And so we begin with ?The Nose? and other ridiculous stories by Gogol. We will go on to read some of the finest short stories of Chekhov and the Nobel Prize winner, Ivan Bunin. The grotesque realism of Isaac Babel's stories and the magical realism of Vladimir Nabokov's also lie within the scope of this course. We will conclude with the late and post-Soviet stories of Tatiana Tolstaia and Ludmilla Petrushe vskaia. No prior knowledge of Russian lan-guage or literature is required. This course satisfieWRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in Russian Language and Literature. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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