01/11/2021
When I ask my students about Russian writers, they normally say, "Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov.."... Some might know Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, too... But the above is a heavy read, not always resonating with our modern lives. 🤓
Let me introduce some more names. And the first one to open this series, will be Ivan Efremov, a brilliant writer, who was praised by Leo Tolstoy himself; a thinker, a philosopher and a genius scientist.
A man born in a Russian village in the early 20th century, a holder of the PhD in biology by the age of 34, a geologist who predicted and discovered the biggest disposition of the dinosaurs' remains on the planet, the man who described the hologram method prior to its invention, ...and so much more.
One of his greatest books "Туманность Андромеды" ("Andromeda's Nebula") talks about the evolution of the human and describes a lot of current events. As you can see from the excerpt below, his language is not too difficult, but the book is very interesting. My advice for any Russian fiction learners/readers, would be to know 1) verb prefixes 2) adjectives. Grammar-wise, it will be easy, but in order to enjoy of descriptions you will need the above.
Oh, by the way, days after Efremov's death, the authorities extracted most of his home archive...Some say, the authorities thought he was dangerous giving out too many scientific secrets in his books, but they did not dare touch him while he was alive. 😱😎👽
