Countdown to Dostoevsky: Why Dostoevsky? Why now?
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment September 1 - December 10, 2024
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment
September 1 - December 10, 2024
August 15, 2024
Those of you who just joined us - welcome! Behold our reading plan for the next 5 years - 2024-2028!!! Please read this note I posted earlier this month - it will give you a better idea about the scope of our project!!!
Dear literature enthusiasts,
Welcome to Anna's Thinking Cap - a place where timeless classics are read, studied, and discussed on the intersection of literature, history, and culture. So far, I offered 14 online tutorials since 2020:
Spring 2020, Boccaccio, Decameron
Fall 2020, Milton, Paradise Lost
Fall 2020, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Spring 2021, Tolstoy, War and Peace
Fall 2021, Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
Spring 2022, Balzac, Colonel Chabert
Spring 2022, Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Summer 2022, Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Fall 2022, Hugo, Les Misérables
Spring 2023, Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Summer 2023, Lord Byron, pretty much ALL his poetry
Fall 2023, Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Spring 2024, Goethe, Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev
Summer 2024, Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Dostoevsky is next!!! I will intersperse my daily commentary with historical, biographical, and literary musings as well as comments on relevant art and music!!! Do you need to commit to reading ALL the books?! Not at all!!! But my commentary will make references to the previous tutorials since quite a few readers will undertake this revelatory journey with me!!! Yes, there will be A LOT of Dostoevsky - we are reading his Great Five (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Adolescent, and Brothers Karamazov) - and several of his early but infinitely consequential works, such as White Nights and The Double. AND a lot of Dumas!!! AND an enter year with Tolstoy!!! PLUS a few surprises along the way!!! Join our literary adventure today!!!
Spring 2024
100 Days of Charming Rotten Scoundrels: Goethe, Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev
Commemorating the 250th anniversary of composition of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther
Commemorating of the bicentennial of Lord Byron's death (1788-1824) and three of the most Byron-inspired novels in Russian literature: Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
Summer 2024
100 Days of Dumas' The Three Musketeers
Commemorating the 180th anniversary of the publications of Alexandre Dumas' (1802-1870) The Three Musketeers (1844)
Fall 2024
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment
Commemorating the 160th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky's (1821-1881) Notes from Underground (1864)
Spring 2025
Surprise!!! Announcement in the fall of 2024!!!
Summer of 2025
100 Days of Dumas' Twenty Years After
Commemorating the 180th anniversary of the publications of Dumas' (1802-1870) Twenty Years After (1845), the first sequel to The Three Musketeers
Fall 2025
100 Days of Dostoevsky's White Nights and The Idiot
Spring 2026
Surprise!!! Announcement in the fall of 2025!!!
Summer 2026
100 Days of Dumas' The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847-1850), the second sequel to The Three Musketeers The concluding tome of the d'Artagnan Romances, in three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask
Fall 2026
100 Days of Dostoevsky's The Double and Demons
Spring 2027
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and The Adolescent
Summer 2027
Surprise!!! Announcement in the fall of 2026!!!
Fall 2027
100 Days of Dostoevsky' Notes from the Dead House and Brothers Karamazov
2028 Spring, Summer, and Fall
Tolstoy!!! During his bicentennial year, we will read several of his works, including War and Peace, The Cossacks, Hadji Murat, The Sevastopol Sketches, and other compositions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), by Vasily Perov (1834-1882), 1872.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), by Achille Devéria (1800-1857), 1829.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894), 1884.
