These are some of the literary works cited in The Possessed, in chronological order by author’s year of birth.
Mir Ali Shir Nevai (Alisher Navoi) (1441–1501). Layli and Majnun (1484); Farhod and Shirin (1484); The Seven Planets (1484); The Language of Birds (1498); The Judgment of Two Languages (1499).
Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530). The Baburnama (ca. 1529).
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). Don Quixote (1605, 1615).
William Cowper (1731–1800). The Task (1785).
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842). Rome, Naples, and Florence (1826); The Red and the Black (1830); The Charterhouse of Parma (1836).
Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869). The House of Ice (1835).
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). Eugene Onegin (1833); “The Queen of Spades” (1834); Journey to Arzrum (1835); The Bronze Horseman (1837).
Nikolai Gogol (1809–52). Dead Souls (1842); “The Overcoat” (1842).
Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891). Oblomov (1859).
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81). The Idiot (1868–69); Demons (1872).
Lev Tolstoy (1828–1910). Anna Karenina (1875–77); The Kreutzer Sonata (1889); The Living Corpse (1900).
Henry James (1843–1916). The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). Sherlock Holmes stories (1892–1927).
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). “The Black Monk” (1894); “Lady with Lapdog” (1899); Uncle Vanya (1899).
Thomas Mann (1875–1955). The Magic Mountain (1924).
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938). “Just for joy, take from my palms” (1920); “When Psyche—life—descends to the shades” (1920).
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930). “Homeward!” (1925); “At the Top of My Voice” (1930).
Isaac Babel (1894–1940). 1920 Diary; “How It Was Done in Odessa” (1923); Red Cavalry (1926); “In the Basement” (1931); “Guy de Maupassant” (1932).
Abdulla Qodiriy (1894–1938). Past Days (1922–25).
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 –1986). “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940); “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (1952).
Daniil Kharms (1905–42). “Pushkin and Gogol” (1934).
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008). Cancer Ward (1968).
Valentin Pikul (1928–1990). Word and Deed (1975).