Russian Classics From Dark Days
Curated by Elif Batuman
About the Curator
Elif Batuman is the author of “The Possessed,” a collection of comic interconnected essays about the pursuit of Russian literature, and “The Idiot,” a novel and Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction. She is also a staff writer at the “New Yorker.”
About the Folio
When the twenty-first century seems terrible, I like to remember the many even worse periods in human history, during which people nonetheless managed to write incredible and illuminating books. Here are three of my favorite Russian classics from days darker than ours.Book selections
Short Fiction
