Alexander Chekhov Puns

Good morning r/RussianLiterature!

Many of you may have remembered my 2020 New Year's Resolution to read every noteworthy Classic Russian Literature. I continued that New Year's Resolution into 2021, and I plan to continue in 2022.

Well, between 2020 and 2021, I read/listened to 140 different novels and short stories.

1. A Bewitched Place by Nikolai Gogol
2. A Candle by Leo Tolstoy
3. A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
4. A Flaming Patriot by Nikolai Leskov
5. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
6. A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
7. A Little Mistake by Nikolai Leskov
8. A Prisoner in the Caucasus by Leo Tolstoy
9. A Robbery by Nikolai Leskov
10. A Slip-Up by Anton Chekhov
11. A Soothing Dream by Fedor Sologub
12. A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
13. A Work of Art by Anton Chekhov
14. About Love by Anton Chekhov
15. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
16. An Amateur Peasant Girl by Alexander Pushkin
17. An Educated Blockhead by Anton Chekhov
18. An Upheaval by Anton Chekhov
19. And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
20. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
21. Ben-Tobit by Leonid Andreyev
22. Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Children Wiser than their Fathers by Leo Tolstoy
24. Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin
25. Comrades by Maxim Gorky
26. Corporal Whompov by Anton Chekhov
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
29. Deathless Golovan by Nikolai Leskov
30. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
31. District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev
32. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
33. Egyptian Nights by Alexander Pushkin
34. Enemies by Anton Chekhov
35. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
36. Fat and Skinny by Anton Chekhov
37. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
38. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
39. Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin
40. God Sees the Truth, But Waits by Leo Tolstoy
41. Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
42. Her Lover by Maxim Gorky
43. How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol
44. At a Country House by Anton Chekhov
45. In a Foreign Land by Anton Chekhov
46. Judas Iscariot by Leonid Andreyev
47. Kassyan of Fair Springs by Ivan Turgenev
48. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov
49. Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
50. Lefty by Nikolai Leskov
51. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53. Man in the Case by Anton Chekhov
54. Memories- From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
55. Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky
56. Mumu by

For the past two years, u/Baba_Jaga_II posted a list of all the Russian lit classics they read in 2020, which inspired me to write up my own. Thanks for the idea--I love lists and year-end recaps!So, here's a list of all the Russian books and notable short stories I read in 2021, along with brief reviews.

I sorted the books into favorites/good/not my favorite, but this is all of course personal preference, not an attempt at objective ranking. I will say that every single book on this list contained something delightful or interesting; there's nothing that I straight-up would not recommend.

I'm a native speaker and read everything in Russian except the Nabokov, so I'll defer to others for recommended translations.

Favorites

Chekhov stories, novellas: I'm such a Chekhov fangirl right now. Read maybe 50-60 stories and all his novellas this year--his themes are so universal. I especially recommend the stories from this list, which contains fantastic lesser-known works. From the novellas, the standouts are My Life (a young nobleman attempts to make it as manual laborer) and Three Years (dissection of an unhappy marriage). Edit: oops, forgot to link the list I referenced: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/the-finest-short-stories-ever-written/

On the Golden Porch, Tatyana Tolstaya: Modern Russian/Soviet prose.  I was vaguely curious about Tolstaya and had been planning to read a few stories for a taste of her writing, but this collection was so unexpectedly delightful that I read the whole thing. Very unusual, poetic writing style, sharp and funny observations about children, Soviet life, romantic relationships.

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard, Pavel Sanaev: Modern Russian prose. A fictionalized memoir about a Soviet childhood spent with an overprotective grandmother who today would be called verbally and emotionally abusive. A great tragicomedy about Soviet family life.

A Country Doctor's Notebook, Bulgakov: Reread, still love it. Sardonic, atmospheric stories about a young doctor practicing in the Russian boonies around the time of the Revolution. Highly recommended for Russian lit newbies.

A Cold Autumn & Pure Monday, Ivan Bunin: I've been reading Bunin to find something I love as much as these stunning short stories, no luck yet. Cold Autumn is about a life torn apart by WWI and the Russian Revolution. Pure Monday is the very rare erotic yet literary story. Also contains some fascinating descriptions of nightlife in pre

Bely, Andrei.
Petersburg. Third-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. A splendid fantasy.

Blok, Alexander. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Passionately fond of his lyrics, but his long pieces are weak.
The Twelve. Dreadful. Self-consciously couched in a phony "primitive" tone, with a pink cardboard Jesus Christ glued on at the end.

Bryusov, Valery. Indifferent to his works.

Chekhov, Anton. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Talent, but not genius. Love him dearly, but cannot rationalize that feeling.

Chernyshevsky, Nikolai. His fate is moving, but his works are risible.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.

Gogol, Nikolai. Nobody takes his mystical didacticism seriously. At his worst, as in his Ukrainian stuff, he is a worthless writer; at his best, he is incomparable and inimitable. Loathe his moralistic slant, am depressed and puzzled by his inability to describe young women, deplore his obsession with religion.

Ilf and Petrov. Two wonderfully gifted writers. Absolutely first-rate fiction.

Mandelshtam, Osip. A wonderful poet, the greatest in Soviet Russia. His poems are admirable specimens of the human mind at its deepest and highest. Not as good as Blok. His tragic fate makes his poetry seem greater than it actually is.

Odoevsky, Vladimir. Indifferent to his works.

Yury Olesha. Some absolutely first-rate fiction.

Pasternak, Boris. An excellent poet, but a poor novelist.
Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences.

Pushkin, Alexander. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. A genius.

Tolstoy, Aleksey. A writer of some talent with two or three science fiction stories or novels which are memorable.

Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

A total of 1090 users submitted valid votes and the average number of authors read per user is 45 authors (out of 197 authors). The median number of votes an author received is 195 votes (Alice Munro, voted by 17.9% of users).

The selection is not complete in any way, but what these writers have in common is that they are all highly acclaimed. That’s why it would be interesting to discuss why some of them are read more or less often than others.

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Do your worst!

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

This is a culled list adapted from my notes -- I must have adapted it from somewhere online, but I couldn't find the source. The 'ranking' is very informal and shouldn't be taken seriously. "Second rate" talents outclass mediocrities (even "formidable" ones) which are better than straight up "dislikes" -- that order might not be valid, but it's sort of fun to look at. Similarly, "favorites" of early adulthood outrank treasures of childhood.

[EDIT -- I just found some interviews where some of the quotes are from; some of the remarks are cursory so the whole thing should be taken w/a grain of salt)

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1. Shakespeare, William. Read complete works between 14 and 15. One would like to have filmed him in the role of the King's Ghost. His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known, and immensely superior to the structure of his “plays as plays.” It is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play. A genius.

2. Austen, Jane. Great. The greatest master of form (of novels) to have lived. (At the same time, VN does not use the word genius, as if that term denotes something other than structure.)

3. Borges, Jorge Luis. “A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent.”

4. Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. A genius. Incomparable prose artistry. Anna Karenina is the supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a close second to Anna Karenina. However, nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. Resurrection. Detest it. The Kreutzer Sonata. Detest it. War and Peace. A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.

5. Tsvetaeva, Marina. A genius.

6. Milton, John. A genius.

7. Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Second-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose.

8. Proust, Marcel. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. In Search of Lost Time. The first half is the fourth-greatest masterpiece of 20th-century prose.

9. Pushkin, Alexander. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. A genius. Eugene Onegin. A great poem, but Walter Arndt's translation is abominable.

10. Joyce, James. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, an

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

At work, I have a workstation.

edit: cheers u/cheer_up_richard

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.