Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Lermontov and handsome Yesenin.
Crime and Punishment (aka the best novel of all time) Anna Karenina, Eugene Onegin. A Hero of Our Time, Fathers and Sons, War and Peace, The Overcoat ().
I prefer American, German, and Japanese literature in general. But I think it's impossible to say one nation's or culture's literaure is better than the other's because surely every culture area produces literature of high (as well as low) quality. So without a doubt, Russian literature has a lot of brilliant pieces of literature to offer. But is it better than French, Korean, or Turkish literature? No, it's simply impossible to say, impossible to know, impossible to measure.
You apparently know much about Russian literature but not about German. There were and are many brilliant German writers such as Friedrich Schiller (!), Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann (!!!), Bertolt Brecht, Herman Hesse, Patrick Süskind, and Herta Müller. The list goes on and on.
You apparently know much about Russian literature but not about German. There were and are many brillant German writers such as Friedrich Schiller (!), Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann (!!!), Bertolt Brecht, Herman Hesse, Patrick Süskind, and Herta Müller. The list goes on and on.
Calm down, I was trolling. Of course I know about Schiller, Mann and Brecht but I don't find them as good as Russians. (Only read The Robbers, Mother Courage and Goethe tho).
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