Blogger suggests ‘better’ titles for Tolstoy and Dostoevsky novels

May 20, 2016 Alexandra Guzeva, RBTH

Russian internet users have been sharing a series of witty rehashes of classic Russian novel titles, including comic interpretations of “Anna Karenina” and “Crime and Punishment.”

A Russian blog called Bird in Flight recently published a short piece on comedian Dan Wilbur and his Better Book Titles website.

Wilbur uses the site to suggest new titles for famous books from the canon of world classics. Of course when it comes to literature, there’s no way of avoiding Russian writers. Naturally, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky novels.

Inspired by this idea, Russians have been sharing the reinterpretations created by Wilbur as well as those submitted by other internet users.

betterbooktitles.com / Title by Kelsey Osgood"Anna Karenina" proved to be one of the biggest sources of creativity.

betterbooktitles.com / Title and Redesign by Mariel

betterbooktitles.com / Title and Redesign by Melanie Wagner

betterbooktitles.com / Title by writer/editor Richard SandersDid you read "War and Peace" to the very end?

betterbooktitles.com / Title by Mike MolinaIf some of us are "Married with Children" like in the well-known American 1990s sitcom, the brothers Karamazov are "Murdered with Children."