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"Tell me, Salieri,
Is't true that Beaumarchais had poisoned someone?"
"I don't think so...he was a genius, wasn't he,
Just like you and I?
Genius and evil are two incompatible things..."
("Mozart and Salieri")
I also need to read Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. I got it out of the library once, and didn't get around to reading it before I had to return it.
I have to say, though--for some reason when I read Russian literature in translation I really feel like I'm missing something. Of course, that's true with all literature in translation, but uniquely true for Russian literature. I have no idea why, but it makes reading the translations...sad...
"Translating from another language is like crossing the battle lines during the war--it cannot be done without sustaining losses"
But yes, I can thoroughly recommend Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" (they include "Boris Godunov", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Miserly Knight", "The Mermaid", and a few others)--these are short tragedies in prose and verse combined.
I also recommend to you his "Belkin's Tales"--that is a collection of short stories.
(yes, I know you've plenty of stuff to read for class right now, don't you ;)