Extremely yes.
The happiest Russian novel ever written is about a woman who goes insane with grief over an affair she is having and kills herself with a train.
The second happiest Russian novel is about a shady character who drives around the countryside buying dead serfs.
The happiest Russian novel ever written is about a woman who goes insane with grief over an affair she is having and kills herself with a train.
The second happiest Russian novel is about a shady character who drives around the countryside buying dead serfs.
The third happiest is about a dude who kills two women with an ax and spends the next 400 pages agonizing over it until the police get him.
Fourth happiest is about a Russian novelist who goes insane, and his girlfriend has to dance naked with Satan so that he'd allow them to die
Fourth happiest is about a Russian novelist who goes insane, and his girlfriend has to dance naked with Satan so that he'd allow them to die
Fifth happiest is about the family of Ukrainian Cossacks who live their lives to the fullest being anti-Semitic and then they all die, with father killing his son for not being xenophobic enough and then getting burned alive in the final scene.
The funniest Russian novel is about a pair of charismatic swindlers who bumble their way around early Stalinist USSR looking for treasure hidden in an old chair until one of them slices the other's throat with a razor.
And the only Russian novel with a genuinely happy ending is about mutilating corpses of men and dogs in order to create a Frankenstein monster who becomes a ruthless agent of the Soviets.
