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=Is it of the Second Freshness? Read it and decide.=

Getting Started: Review the reading list below and be ready to discuss the stories as assigned.
Work on creating the PowerPoint together; you may use GoogleDocs to create your Presentation. You will find the link to the left. I have already created the presentation and invited all of you to collaborate. Check your emails for invitations.

Pushkin:
Author Biography
 * Queen of Spades
 * The Shot (I will make copies and distribute)
 * The Snowstorm (I will make copies and distribute)
 * The Undertaker (I will make copies and distribute)
 * The Peasant Girl (I will make copies and distribute)
 * Selected other stories
 * Ruslan and Ludmila (skim)

Gogol:

 * The Overcoat (I will make copies and distribute)
 * Inspector General (skim synopsis; reading is optional)
 * The Nose

Chekhov:
> @http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html (The Bet and Darling links in addition to many others) >
 * Pick any three of the stories below:
 * Gooseberries,
 * The Grasshopper,
 * The Bishop, or
 * The Lady with the Lapdog
 * The Bet
 * The Darling
 * Reading The Duel > is OPTIONAL, as it is 21 chapters long...I will try to order the film.)

Tolstoy:

 * God Sees the Truth But Waits (copy)
 * Alyosha the Pot (copy)
 * Love (copy)
 * Prisoner of the Caucuses (copy)
 * selected works (TBA)

Kafka:

 * Metamorphosis (See wikipedia and review the synopsis)
 * selected works (copies)

Bunin:

 * Light Breathing (Gentle Breathing) (The text is in an online PDF file; it's on pages 41-50)

Mann:

 * Little Herr Friedemann (copies)
 * Tristan (copies)
 * Death in Venice (borrow book or ask for copies)

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche:

 * Lectures (video lecture/copies)
 * Discussion

Foreign Films:

 * Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila (DVD; excerpts)
 * Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (DVD; Russian with English subtitles/selected episodes from Russian mini-series)
 * Krzysztof Kieslowski: Three Color's Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red (French and Polish with English subtitles)
 * Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amélie (French with English subtitles)
 * Selected Works (TBA)