Looking for some good Russian literature. . .?

Question: Looking for some good Russian literature!. !. !.!?

I've read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov

Loved all three of them!.

Have you read any good Russian lit!?

Any suggestions!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

What about modern stuff like Mikhail Bulgakov!? The Master and Margarita, The Fatal Eggs, Flight and A Dog's Heart are among his best!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I hope you have access to more recent translations of these authors:

Nikolai Gogol---yes, yes, yes!. Dead Souls especially!.
Isaac Babel
Ivan Turgenev---writer of the important novel Fathers and Sons!. also, I've known two people who learned Russian just so they could read him in the original!.
Vladimir Sorokin---contemporary
Andrei Biely (or Bely)---His novel Petersburg (or St!. Petersburg) is one of the greats!. Nabokov thought it one of the best novels of the century!.
Vladimir Nabokov (although you'll have to search for the ones he wrote in Russian---or French)
Tatyana Tolstaya---contemporary
Andrey Platonov
Victor Serge
Maxim Gorky---after the Revolution, the favored Communist writer, but even he was subjected to house arrest before his death
Yuri Olyesha (Olesha)
Ivan Goncharov
Victor Pelevin---contemporary
Yevgeny Zamyatin---His novel We is considered classic sci-fi!.
Alexander Pushkin---best translation of Eugene Onegin:
http://www!.amazon!.com/Eugene-Onegin-Oxfo!.!.!.
Boris Pasternak
Venedikt Erofeev
Mikhail Lermontov
Vladimir Voinovich
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Yuri Trifonov
Valentin Rasputin
Fyodor Gladkov
Lydia Chukovskaya
Sergei Dovlatov
Varlam Shalamov
Valentin Kataev
Natalia Baranskaya
Vasily Grossman

And of course others have already mentioned Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov!.

If you're up for it, you might want to read some poets, too!. I have some favorites:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Marina Tsvetaeva
Anna Akhmatova
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Aleksander BlokWww@QuestionHome@Com

"The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov is great - very funny!Www@QuestionHome@Com

You know my obvious answer is Solzhenitsyn!.

also try some Gogol and Pushkin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com