Russian fiction
Novels from Moscow
Russian fiction refers to novels, short stories, and other narrative literature from Russia or by Russian authors.
The term often evokes the psychological depth and philosophical weight of 19th-century masters like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov: She's been on a Russian fiction kick lately—just finished Anna Karenina.
The tradition is associated with moral seriousness, expansive length, and large casts of characters with difficult names.
- Brothers KaramazovNovel about feuding siblings
- realismAccepting things as they are
- social realismUnidealized portrayal of workers' lives
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment · Leo Tolstoy · absurdism · Anton Chekhov · romanticism · Silver Age · suffering · tragic hero · magical realism · samizdat · Bolshevik Revolution · folklore · Soviet Union · Alexander Pushkin · existentialism · satire · symbolism
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- European literatureAnna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Dracula, Frankenstein
- regional fictionregional dialect, sense of place, Asian literature, African literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- fictionnovel, novels, novella, novellas, short story
Russian fictionFrench fiction
Made-up tales from France
American fiction · British fiction · English fiction · Japanese fiction · French novels
Russian fictionpulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
escapist literature · comedic fiction · escapist fiction · romance novels · chick lit
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