Strolls with Pushkin
Strolls with Pushkin
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Andrei Sinyavsky writes under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. This book is a portrait of the poems and work of Pushkin. In the text the author challenges the official image of Pushkin, and muses on the possible relationship between the poet's real life and his poetry.
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Strolls with Pushkin by Slava I Yastremski
This is the first English translation of a work which caused a scandal in Russia when it originally appeared. Sinyavksy wrote "Strolls with Pushkin" while he was imprisoned for his writings in a Soviet labour camp, smuggled it out in letters to his wife, and published it in emigration in 1975. 14 years later, the first excerpt was published in Russia. Many scholars in the West regard it as the most brilliant critical work on Pushkin ever to have been written; however, in Russia it has been violently attacked for its irreverent portrait of Pushkin, who is the Russian national poet possessing a status approximating that of a religious icon. In this book, Sinyavksy attempts to answer the question why Pushkin is able to achieve the lightness, brilliance and universality that is so often attributed to him. He claims that Pushkin's lightness is often emptiness, his brilliance is often posing, and his universality is merely an acknowledgement of the pleasures of everyday life. This is all counter to the received Russian notion of Pushkin as a divinely inspired universal genius who interpreted the "great soul of Mother Russia". The book itself can be read as an inspired monologue about the nature of greatness in art and artists, and it is sure to become a classic of Russian literature and Russian literary criticism.
Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exile Soviet dissident writer whose works have been compared to fabulists like Kafka and Borges. Tertz's settings are exotic but familiar and as compelling as those of lunatics and mystics.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780300052794 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300052790 |
| Title | Strolls with Pushkin |
| Author | Slava I Yastremski |
| Series | Russian Literature And Thought |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1994-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |