Russian literature

I have read a few books by Russian authors lately, the Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Doctor Zjivago by Boris Pasternak. It is far from many, but I must say that I have found an interest in their complicated histories filled with characters with different names.
It took me quite sometime to get in to Doctor Zjivago, mostly because I expected the book to act in one way and got lost when it didn’t. I decided to re-start the whole thing and leave my mind blank from the first page and the results followed!
Now maybe I will be brave enough to try one of the larger book as well as Crime and Punishment and War and Peace
Josefine

My recommendations: Doctor Zjivago by Boris Pasternak

The Dark Side

Lately I have read many books about the dark side of the universe, not non-fiction books about evil people and war stories (even though I read quite a few of them as well). Fiction books about death and the devil and what happens when you decide to pass over to their side. The two latest one is Swedish writer Maria Ernestam’s Caphirinia with Death (my translation) and the modern classic The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
It is fascinating just because in these books we get a glimpse of what would happen if we took a step in the wrong direction, when we choose to accompany Death or the Devil.
Josefine

My recommendations: Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov