e they can ever repair their relationship, and he throws himself into his work. Karanja works at Githima, a Forest Research Station started by the British. He tries to cultivate the approval of the DO, Roger Thompson, who is stationed there with his wife Margery. Thompson was once destined for an illustrious career, but it was derailed by a hunger strike and violence at Rira, the camp where Mugo was. Now Thompson is at Githima, but is preparing to return to Britain because he does not want to be around when whites are no longer in charge. Karanja did not join the freedom movement but rather started to work for the whiteman, first joining the homeguard and then becoming Chief during the Emergency. This incurred a lot of resentment from people; however, Karanja was simply looking out for himself. Mumbi, distressed that her husband no longer loves her, comes to see Mugo. She confides in him the story of how she and Gikonyo fell in love, and how sad she was when he was away in camp. She only fell for Karanja’s advances when she heard Gikonyo was returning and became deliriously happy. She begs Mugo to come to Uhuru; on a second visit to him, she begs him again. Mugo becomes violent and says he betrayed Kihika. Mumbi is shocked, but she does not want any more blood shed for her brother. Uhuru arrives, the day first rainy and then sunny. People are joyful and all of them want to see Mugo, even though he has said he is not coming. There are games and speeches. There is also a spontaneous race, and Gikonyo and Karanja find themselves competing with each other (much as they competed in a race for Mumbi’s attention long ago). They stumble, though, and Gikonyo breaks his arm and has to go to the hospital. General R. gives a speech instead of Mugo and calls for the traitor to step forward, assuming it will be Karanja. Mugo comes out of the crowd and says it is he who did it; he feels a sense of freedom at first, quickly followed by terror. No one accosts him, and the confused crowd parts and lets him go. Later, General R. and Koina come to arrest him and tell him he will have a private trial. Mugo makes peace with this, deciding he will accept his punishment. Some of the village elders feel that Uhuru did not go well, and that there is something wrong. Karanja heads back to Githima. He is unhappy and considers killing himself in front of a train. Ultimately, he decides against this. Gikonyo wakes in the hospital and finds himself ready to make amends with Mumbi. When she visits him, he tells her he is ready to speak of the child he has assiduously ignored since he came back. She tells him it must wait until they can have a serious and heartfelt discussion of their wants and needs. He is happy, and plans to carve a stool featuring an image of a pregnant Mumbi.
*The title derives from 1 Corinthians 15:36: "How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies"; the verse John 12:24 also applies: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” It is the penultimate book of Ngugi's to be written in English before he began writing in Gikuyu.
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ's best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a preeminent voice theorizing the "language debate" in post-colonial studies. Ngũgĩ describes the book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature..." Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: "The Language of African Literature," "The Language of African Theatre," "The Language of African Fiction," and "The Quest for Relevan
*The title derives from 1 Corinthians 15:36: "How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies"; the verse John 12:24 also applies: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” It is the penultimate book of Ngugi's to be written in English before he began writing in Gikuyu.
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ's best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a preeminent voice theorizing the "language debate" in post-colonial studies. Ngũgĩ describes the book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature..." Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: "The Language of African Literature," "The Language of African Theatre," "The Language of African Fiction," and "The Quest for Relevan
ce." Several of the book's chapters originated as lectures, and apparently this format gave Ngũgĩ "the chance to pull together in a connected and coherent form the main issues on the language question in literature...." The book offers a distinctly anti-imperialist perspective on the "continuing debate...about the destiny of Africa" and language's role in both combatting and perpetrating imperialism and the conditions of neocolonialism in African nations. The book is also Ngũgĩ's "farewell to English," and it addresses the "language problem" for African authors. Ngũgĩ focuses on questions about the African writer's linguistic medium (should one write in one's indigenous language, or a hegemonic language like French or English?), the writer's intended audience, and the writer's purpose in writing. Decolonising the Mind is a meld of autobiography, post-colonial theory, pedagogy, African history, and literary criticism. Ngũgĩ dedicated Decolonising the Mind "to all those who write in African languages, and to all those who over the years have maintained the dignity of the literature, culture, philosophy, and other treasures carried by African languages."
Novels
Weep Not, Child, (1964)
The River Between, (1965)
A Grain of Wheat, (1967, 1992)
Petals of Blood (1977)
Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross, 1980)
Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986 (Matigari, translated into English by Wangui wa Goro, 1989)
Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow, 2004)
Short story collections
A Meeting in the Dark (1974)
Secret Lives, and Other Stories, (1976, 1992)
Plays
The Black Hermit (1963)
This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Rebels", and "The Wound in the Heart") (c. 1970
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976) 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi's life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights' response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical "trial" at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is "an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement."
Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want) (1977, 1982)
Essays
Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972)
Writers in Politics: Essays (1981)
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993)
Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998.
Novels
Weep Not, Child, (1964)
The River Between, (1965)
A Grain of Wheat, (1967, 1992)
Petals of Blood (1977)
Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross, 1980)
Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986 (Matigari, translated into English by Wangui wa Goro, 1989)
Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow, 2004)
Short story collections
A Meeting in the Dark (1974)
Secret Lives, and Other Stories, (1976, 1992)
Plays
The Black Hermit (1963)
This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Rebels", and "The Wound in the Heart") (c. 1970
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976) 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi's life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights' response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical "trial" at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is "an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement."
Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want) (1977, 1982)
Essays
Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972)
Writers in Politics: Essays (1981)
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993)
Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998.
Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie (1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction
Works:
1. Purple Hibiscus (2003),
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Hibiscus_(novel)
○ starts with an extended quote from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
○ The central character is Kambili Achike, aged fifteen for much of the period covered by the book, a member of a wealthy family dominated by her devoutly Catholic father, Eugene.
2. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun
○ named after the flag of the shortlived nation of Biafra, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War.
3. Americanah (2013),
○ an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America, was selected by The New York Times as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2013"
4. Short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009),
5. A book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).
6. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
Works:
1. Purple Hibiscus (2003),
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Hibiscus_(novel)
○ starts with an extended quote from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
○ The central character is Kambili Achike, aged fifteen for much of the period covered by the book, a member of a wealthy family dominated by her devoutly Catholic father, Eugene.
2. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun
○ named after the flag of the shortlived nation of Biafra, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War.
3. Americanah (2013),
○ an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America, was selected by The New York Times as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2013"
4. Short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009),
5. A book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).
6. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
Wikipedia
Purple Hibiscus
novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
🔥Lewis Nkosi (1936 -2010)
was a South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing
Lewis Nkosi returned to South Africa in 2001, after a gap of nearly four decades. His final years before his death in 2010 were passed in financial difficulties and ill health
Works:
Novels (Read Summaries online and make mind maps)
1. Mating Birds, Constable, 1986,
a. narration of an educated South African black native called Ndi Sibiya. He narrates the story from prison, awaiting a death sentence.
b. Story of how a white girl (Veronica) first intentionally makes sexual contact with Sibiya and then accuses him of rape when they are seen together by a neighbor
c. He is judged by a white judge who finds him guilty and sentences him to death.
2. Underground People, Kwela Books, 2002,
a. In this novel, he moved away from the theme of inter-racial sexual relations and centred the story on the armed struggle in South Africa.
3. Mandela's Ego, Struik, 2006,
a. Dumisani Gumede a teenage who pursues a lot of women, idolizes Nelson Mandela
b. He loses his sexual energy as soon as he realizes that Mandela is imprisoned
c. Gets it back instantly after the news of Mandela's release
Collections of essays
1. Home and Exile, Longman, 1965
2. Home and Exile and other selections, Longman, 1983,
3. The Transplanted Heart: Essays on South Africa, 1975
4. Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature, Longman, 1981
Plays
1. The Rhythm of Violence (1964)
2. The Chameleon and the Lizard
3. The Black Psychiatrist (2001)
was a South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing
Lewis Nkosi returned to South Africa in 2001, after a gap of nearly four decades. His final years before his death in 2010 were passed in financial difficulties and ill health
Works:
Novels (Read Summaries online and make mind maps)
1. Mating Birds, Constable, 1986,
a. narration of an educated South African black native called Ndi Sibiya. He narrates the story from prison, awaiting a death sentence.
b. Story of how a white girl (Veronica) first intentionally makes sexual contact with Sibiya and then accuses him of rape when they are seen together by a neighbor
c. He is judged by a white judge who finds him guilty and sentences him to death.
2. Underground People, Kwela Books, 2002,
a. In this novel, he moved away from the theme of inter-racial sexual relations and centred the story on the armed struggle in South Africa.
3. Mandela's Ego, Struik, 2006,
a. Dumisani Gumede a teenage who pursues a lot of women, idolizes Nelson Mandela
b. He loses his sexual energy as soon as he realizes that Mandela is imprisoned
c. Gets it back instantly after the news of Mandela's release
Collections of essays
1. Home and Exile, Longman, 1965
2. Home and Exile and other selections, Longman, 1983,
3. The Transplanted Heart: Essays on South Africa, 1975
4. Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature, Longman, 1981
Plays
1. The Rhythm of Violence (1964)
2. The Chameleon and the Lizard
3. The Black Psychiatrist (2001)
Daily Schedule, Timeline etc.
Parth
What to study? How much to study? Daily to-do list, timeline for syllabus etc.
Frantz Fanon (1925 -1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer from the French colony of Martinique, whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.
Works:
1. Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
○ Fanon psychoanalyzes the oppressed Black person who is perceived to have to be a lesser creature in the White world that they live in, and studies how they navigate the world through a performance of White-ness.
○ He talks about how the black person's use of a colonizer's language is seen by the colonizer as predatory, and not transformative, which in turn may create insecurity in the black's consciousness
○ Ultimately, he concludes that "mastery of language [of the white/colonizer] for the sake of recognition as white reflects a dependency that subordinates the black's humanity"
2. A Dying Colonialism (1959)
○ Year Five of the Algerian Revolution, later republished as Sociology of a Revolution and later still as A Dying Colonialism).
○ Fanon's original title was "Reality of a Nation"; however, the publisher refused to accept this title.
3. The Wretched of the Earth(1961)
○ Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
○ In it Fanon analyzes the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for national liberation. The book includes an article which focuses on the ideas of violence and decolonization. He claims that decolonization is inherently a violent process, because the relationship between the settler and the native is a binary of opposites.
○ Ngũgĩ wa Thiango argues in Decolonizing the Mind (1992) that it is "impossible to understand what informs African writing" without reading Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.
4. Toward the African Revolution (1964)
Aimé Césaire was a particularly significant influence in Fanon's life. Césaire, a leader of the Négritude movement, was teacher and mentor to Fanon on the island of Martinique.[27] Fanon was first introduced to Négritude during his lycée days in Martinique when Césaire coined the term and presented his ideas in La Revue Tropique, the journal that he edited with his wife,
Works:
1. Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
○ Fanon psychoanalyzes the oppressed Black person who is perceived to have to be a lesser creature in the White world that they live in, and studies how they navigate the world through a performance of White-ness.
○ He talks about how the black person's use of a colonizer's language is seen by the colonizer as predatory, and not transformative, which in turn may create insecurity in the black's consciousness
○ Ultimately, he concludes that "mastery of language [of the white/colonizer] for the sake of recognition as white reflects a dependency that subordinates the black's humanity"
2. A Dying Colonialism (1959)
○ Year Five of the Algerian Revolution, later republished as Sociology of a Revolution and later still as A Dying Colonialism).
○ Fanon's original title was "Reality of a Nation"; however, the publisher refused to accept this title.
3. The Wretched of the Earth(1961)
○ Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
○ In it Fanon analyzes the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for national liberation. The book includes an article which focuses on the ideas of violence and decolonization. He claims that decolonization is inherently a violent process, because the relationship between the settler and the native is a binary of opposites.
○ Ngũgĩ wa Thiango argues in Decolonizing the Mind (1992) that it is "impossible to understand what informs African writing" without reading Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.
4. Toward the African Revolution (1964)
Aimé Césaire was a particularly significant influence in Fanon's life. Césaire, a leader of the Négritude movement, was teacher and mentor to Fanon on the island of Martinique.[27] Fanon was first introduced to Négritude during his lycée days in Martinique when Césaire coined the term and presented his ideas in La Revue Tropique, the journal that he edited with his wife,
#Literary Term of the Day
Lumpenproletariat
Coined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1840s, they used it to refer to the "unthinking" lower strata of society exploited by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces
Definition: "the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class."
The term was popularized in the West by Frantz Fanon in the 1960s and has been adopted as a sociological term. However, its vagueness and its history as a term of abuse has led to some criticism. Some radical groups, most notably the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, have sought to mobilize the lumpenproletariat.
Lumpenproletariat
Coined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1840s, they used it to refer to the "unthinking" lower strata of society exploited by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces
Definition: "the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class."
The term was popularized in the West by Frantz Fanon in the 1960s and has been adopted as a sociological term. However, its vagueness and its history as a term of abuse has led to some criticism. Some radical groups, most notably the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, have sought to mobilize the lumpenproletariat.
Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)
• was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".
He wrote such works as Une Tempête, a response to Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
#AfricanLiterature
• was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".
He wrote such works as Une Tempête, a response to Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
#AfricanLiterature
Ayi Kwei Armah (1939 -
is a Ghanaian writer. Best known for his novels, including
1. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968),
○ The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence. The action takes place between 1965's Passion Week and 25 February 1966 – the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
2. Two Thousand Seasons (1973)
3. The Healers (1979)
#AfricanLiterature
is a Ghanaian writer. Best known for his novels, including
1. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968),
○ The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence. The action takes place between 1965's Passion Week and 25 February 1966 – the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
2. Two Thousand Seasons (1973)
3. The Healers (1979)
#AfricanLiterature
#LiteraryTermofTheDay
Négritude
1. Negritude, French Négritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
2. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aimé Césaire from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana
3. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, and argued for the importance of a Pan-African racial identity among people of African descent worldwide.
The Negritude movement was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering that emerged among a group of black thinkers and artists (including novelists and poets) in the United States, in New York City, during the 1920s.
Négritude
1. Negritude, French Négritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
2. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aimé Césaire from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana
3. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, and argued for the importance of a Pan-African racial identity among people of African descent worldwide.
The Negritude movement was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering that emerged among a group of black thinkers and artists (including novelists and poets) in the United States, in New York City, during the 1920s.
Hi Guys. Rakshabandhan Special 🎯 Try and complete these authors tomorrow along with your usual to-do list. Will put up a 20 question quiz tomorrow at 22.00.
Anton Chekhov
#RussianLiterature
Master of the modern short story.
Notable works
1. “The Seagull” - 1896
a. The Seagull is a study of the clash between the
b. older and younger generations as it affects two actresses and two writers, some of the details having been suggested by episodes in the lives of Chekhov’s friends
c. Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin.
2. “The Cherry Orchard” -
a. “a comedy, in places even a farce - Chekov
b. Madame Ranevskaya returns to Russia from Paris after 5 years with debt.
c. Decides to dispose of family estate which has a cherry orchard
d. Coarse, wealthy merchant Ermolai Lopakhin suggerst to develop the land
e. Eventually Ermolai buys the land and sound of saws can be heard
3. “Ward Number Six”
4. “Uncle Vanya”
a. drama in four acts
b. a study of aimlessness and hopelessness.
c. Ivan Voynitsky called Uncle Vanya - devoted life for managing the country estate of his brother in law Serebryakov. Sonya Serebryakov's daughter endures her love for local physician.. Neither of them can leave the work at the end.
5. “Three Sisters”
a. Olga (the eldest sister) , - teacher
b. Masha The middle sister
c. Irina the youngest
Other Works:
“The Black Monk”
“Ivanov”
“A Dreary Story”
“Peasants”
“Wood Demon”
#RussianLiterature
Master of the modern short story.
Notable works
1. “The Seagull” - 1896
a. The Seagull is a study of the clash between the
b. older and younger generations as it affects two actresses and two writers, some of the details having been suggested by episodes in the lives of Chekhov’s friends
c. Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin.
2. “The Cherry Orchard” -
a. “a comedy, in places even a farce - Chekov
b. Madame Ranevskaya returns to Russia from Paris after 5 years with debt.
c. Decides to dispose of family estate which has a cherry orchard
d. Coarse, wealthy merchant Ermolai Lopakhin suggerst to develop the land
e. Eventually Ermolai buys the land and sound of saws can be heard
3. “Ward Number Six”
4. “Uncle Vanya”
a. drama in four acts
b. a study of aimlessness and hopelessness.
c. Ivan Voynitsky called Uncle Vanya - devoted life for managing the country estate of his brother in law Serebryakov. Sonya Serebryakov's daughter endures her love for local physician.. Neither of them can leave the work at the end.
5. “Three Sisters”
a. Olga (the eldest sister) , - teacher
b. Masha The middle sister
c. Irina the youngest
Other Works:
“The Black Monk”
“Ivanov”
“A Dreary Story”
“Peasants”
“Wood Demon”
#QUIZ 1
1) Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?
A. Andrey Bely
B. Ivan Goncharov ⬅️
C. Ivan Bunin
D. Vladimir Mayakovsky
2) What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?
E. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
F. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.⬅️
G. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
H. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
3) What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?
1. Dead Souls⬅️
2. Nevsky Prospect
3. The Overcoat
4. The Government Inspector
4) Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?
1. Bend Sinister
2. Invitation to a Beheading⬅️
3. Pale Fire
4. Pnin
5) What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
1. Rodion Raskolnikov⬅️
2. Fyodor Karamazov
3. Prince Myshkin
4. Porfiry Petrovich
6) Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?
1. The Cherry Orchard
2. Uncle Vanya
3. Three Sisters
4. The Lower Depths⬅️
7) One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?
1. Anna Akhmatova⬅️
2. Boris Pasternak
3. Osip Mandelstam
4. Marina Tsvetayeva
8) Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?
1. Aleksandr Ostrovsky
2. Ivan Goncharov
3. Aleksandr Pushkin⬅️
4. Mikhail Lermontov
9) Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?
1. Pontius Pilate and Jesus⬅️
2. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky
3. Mark Antony and Cleopatra
4. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
10) When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
A. 1973
B. 1958⬅️
C. 1968
D. 1974
11) Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for a work that was banned in the USSR?
A. Tatyana Yesenina
B. Andrei Zarin
C. Boris Pasternak⬅️
D. Vladimir Lenin
12) How many real brothers are there in The Brothers Karamazov?
A. 3⬅️
B. 5
C. 2
D. 9
13) Which poet and prose writer is known as Russia's national poet.
A. Pushkin⬅️
B. Lermontov
C. Minaev
D. Mandelshtam
14) Which writer spent time in a Siberian prison in the 19th century?
A. Babel
B. Dostoyevsky⬅️
C. Mandelshtam
D. Solzhenitsyn
15) Yuri Zivago was a
A. Poet
B. Chemist and Poet
C. Physicist and Poet⬅️
D. Mathematician
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1) Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?
A. Andrey Bely
B. Ivan Goncharov ⬅️
C. Ivan Bunin
D. Vladimir Mayakovsky
2) What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?
E. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
F. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.⬅️
G. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
H. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
3) What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?
1. Dead Souls⬅️
2. Nevsky Prospect
3. The Overcoat
4. The Government Inspector
4) Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?
1. Bend Sinister
2. Invitation to a Beheading⬅️
3. Pale Fire
4. Pnin
5) What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
1. Rodion Raskolnikov⬅️
2. Fyodor Karamazov
3. Prince Myshkin
4. Porfiry Petrovich
6) Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?
1. The Cherry Orchard
2. Uncle Vanya
3. Three Sisters
4. The Lower Depths⬅️
7) One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?
1. Anna Akhmatova⬅️
2. Boris Pasternak
3. Osip Mandelstam
4. Marina Tsvetayeva
8) Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?
1. Aleksandr Ostrovsky
2. Ivan Goncharov
3. Aleksandr Pushkin⬅️
4. Mikhail Lermontov
9) Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?
1. Pontius Pilate and Jesus⬅️
2. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky
3. Mark Antony and Cleopatra
4. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
10) When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
A. 1973
B. 1958⬅️
C. 1968
D. 1974
11) Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for a work that was banned in the USSR?
A. Tatyana Yesenina
B. Andrei Zarin
C. Boris Pasternak⬅️
D. Vladimir Lenin
12) How many real brothers are there in The Brothers Karamazov?
A. 3⬅️
B. 5
C. 2
D. 9
13) Which poet and prose writer is known as Russia's national poet.
A. Pushkin⬅️
B. Lermontov
C. Minaev
D. Mandelshtam
14) Which writer spent time in a Siberian prison in the 19th century?
A. Babel
B. Dostoyevsky⬅️
C. Mandelshtam
D. Solzhenitsyn
15) Yuri Zivago was a
A. Poet
B. Chemist and Poet
C. Physicist and Poet⬅️
D. Mathematician
#RussianLiterature