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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:
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 * Queen of Spades
 * The Shot (I will make copies and distribute)
 * The Snowstorm
 * The Undertaker
 * Ruslan and Ludmila (skim)

Gogol:

 * The Overcoat
 * Inspector General (skim)
 * The Nose

Chekhov:
Reading The Duel is OPTIONAL, as it is 21 chapters long...I will try to order the film. )The Duel > @http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html (The Bet and Darling links in additional 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

Tolstoy:

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

Kafka:

 * Metamorphosis (borrow book)
 * selected works (copies)

Bunin:
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 * Light Breathing (Gentle Breathing)

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)
 * Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (DVD; Russian with English subtitles)
 * Krzysztof Kieslowski: Three Color's Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red (French and Polish with English subtitles)
 * Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Double Life of Veronique (French and Polish with English subtitles)
 * Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amélie (French with English subtitles)
 * Selected Works (TBA)