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1. The Daughter of the Commandant by Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 Pushkin | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-09-22)
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2. Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 Pushkin | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-02-01)
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3. Secret Journal 1836-1837 by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Paperback: 91
Pages
(1990-04)
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THE GREAT DISCOVERY IN I9th-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Secret Journal - ... For Alexander S. Pushkin is my favorite writer, and I was thrilled when the book finally arrived.I immediately opened the package and sat down to what I thought was going to be an experience, the chance at a glimpse into the mind of a literary genius. My elations and joy quickly soured as I started to read this book.It reads like a cheap sex novel, filled with prostitutes, orgies and other detestable sexual adventures. For any avid Pushkin fan who reads this and knows about the author, you will agree with me.For those who are not fans of Pushkin, or are not well knowledgeable of his works, this book will give you a distorted view of him - a false view. One of the reasons why I ardently disprove of this book is because I have done extensive research on him, family life, and etc.This does not indeed make me an expert, for I do not claim to be such.However, I am well versed in his literary works, to see a farce or the truth. Thus, I do not recommend anyone to read or buy this farce...
dilemmas over dilemmas As the author stated in his journal" it is better to die with honour then to live as a dishonoured man" where the tsar was overwatching writers wife all over the places and sometimes calling her in for having to be near to her and to touch her! on the other hand, the writer's brother in-law d'anthes had an eye for pushkins wife natalia pushkina and having to spread rumors all over that he had an affair with authors wife! whatever may pushkin have done within his troubled marriage, human honour would always judge ýtself whether the unfaithfullness and mistrust one another in a marriage belongs only to the committed ones or not! ... Read more |
4. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837): A guide to translations of Pushkin's verse into English, by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1955)
Asin: B0007K4O6Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Tainye Zapiski 1836-1837 Godov by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Paperback: 103
Pages
(1987-01)
list price: US$18.00 Isbn: 0916201023 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. The Poems, Prose and Plays by Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1943-04)
list price: US$33.25 Isbn: 0394607627 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Alexander Pushkin: Epigrams & Satirical Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Hardcover: 126
Pages
(1984-07)
list price: US$15.00 Isbn: 0882338862 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Hardcover: 369
Pages
(1992-06-02)
list price: US$15.00 Isbn: 0679413316 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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solid introduction to Pushkin
One of Russia's Literary Masters
Worth a read
The Master of Russian Literature
The dream of life. Small, less thanhandsome misfit in a constant and direct dialog with the Muses. A man whosesocial, financial and matrimonial achievements are no match to hisart. His talents bloomed in the Lyceum, he was hailed by the mostprominent poet of Russian Classicism - Gavrila Derzhavin, who had appointedthe youngster his poetical heir. But Pushkin made only a fewcontributions to the genre - he was a devoted romantic, a Byronite.Mermaids, gypsies and noble robber brothers were the inhabitants of hisadolescent poems. Drinking bouts with local Hussar officers were toppledby the boy's passionate odes to Liberty. Alexander was a celebrityguest. The guest he remained. The officers - The Decembrists - rebelledagainst the tsar. Puskin was not invited. The conspirators felt that"the son of the Muses" is fond of the revolutionary rhetorics,not the cause. Later, asked by the triumphant monarch does he regret hisabsence in rebellious ranks on that fateful December day, Pushkin confirmedhis affinity with his hanged friends. He wanted to be taking seriously, hewas ready to suffer. But the tsar was only amused and let Alexandergo. Pushkin soared high in empirea, the verse of unbelievable beauty andclarity was streaming from his quill, but his everyday life was dominatedby gambling, drinking and chasing the known libertines. Yearning to beaccepted socially he offered his friendship to unworthy and very often hadto contend with their condescending attitude. He was not the first sociallyawkward creator in human history but that understanding did nothing tolessen the pain. In his final years Pushkin decided to settle down, toaccept the responsibilities, to marry, to get the position in the tsar'scourt. Natalia Goncharova, the first beauty of Petersburg, consented tomarry him - her family was impoverished, Alexander - insistent.He wasgiven the court rank - kamerjunker, nearly the lowest in the hierarchy, fitfor a very young man making his very first steps in the court. He wasinsulted but the wife's acclaimed beauty compensated for that and the otherdisapointments. They all envy him - the lucky man! There was never enoughmoney to put that gem in a proper setting. The beauty was expecting herdue. If Alexander is incapable there are others. Art remained the onlyconsolation. Once he woke up in the middle of the night, put on a light andfevereshly scribbled the newborn lines. He read them to the wife. - Don'tyou ever do that to me again! - said the sleepy beauty. His art is notable to conquer that perfection, the beauty of verse is nothing to thebeauty of flesh. Pushkin is made fun of, proclaimed a cuckold. His lifeis nearing the end. In his last year the tortured genius writes Captain'sDaughter. No mermaids here, no gypsies. It's clarity and restrained beautyis unsurpassed in our literature. A son of old officer Petr AndreevichGrinev turns seventeen. He is enlisted as a toddler in a prestigeousregiment in Petersburg, now he is an officer already. He has no extensiveeducation - just the basic ideas of nobility and some knowledge of French.His name is telling - Petr means a stone, father's name - a man, a male. The father wants to keep the son unspoiled - Petr is refused his ticket tothe Petersburg. He goes to the steppes instead, to the fortress in themiddle of nowhere. On the way he gets drunk, loses money, suffers fromhangover, abuses his old servant -with no harm to his innerintegrity. He begins to enjoy the simple life in the fortress, captain'sdaughter is aware if his feelings and seems to feel the same way. Short and ugly comrade-in-arms, Alexei Shvabrin envies him and speaks dirty ofthe girl. Duel puts Petr in a bed. The love flourishes. All that aprelude to the Russian rebellion, "senseless and merciless". The fortress is taken, the captain is hanged, his wife lies naked anddead in a dirt. Petr's life is spared on impostor's whim. Masha, thecaptain's daughter, is hidden in the local priest's house. Shvabrin isappointed the fortress commander and has the girl who rejected him in hispower. All will end well. The young lovers are ready to sacrifice, theirlove will conquer all, the empress Ekaterina is merciful - just like heradversary "emperor" Pugachev. Like a drowning man gasping forair Pushkin had to get in contact with the qualities his life is soutterlly lacking - integrity, loyalty,love accepted and given back. He hadexperienced all that in Captain's Daughter. No matter what happens PetrGrinev is true to his nature - the quality respected by friends andenemies. He is always ready to do the right thing - no matter what's theprice. There are things more important than life. Or love. Puskin's lifeis over, he is not respected, not loved by the woman he chose. So heescapes in art, lives another life, the dream of life he never had. Lesstalented writer would have succumbed to the pure escapism, but AlexanderPushkin is a genius, what we have instead is a timeless masterpiece, clearand restrained, very modern prose, the characters we care about.No onesucceed in imitating that style. Puskin is not very well known in theWest. The verse is so Russian it defies a translation, the prose isdeceptively simple - it's very different from "prophetic"writings of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, the export variant of The Great LateRussian Literature.The reader used to contemplating "the mysteriousRussian soul" will be disappointed. I am reluctant to recommend thatbook to a Western reader.But Pushkin is one of the reasons I still livehere. ... Read more |
9. The Contexts of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Studies in Slavic Language and Literature) by Peter I. Barta | |
Hardcover: 150
Pages
(1988-12)
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10. Prelude to Parnassus;: Scenes from the life of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) by James Cleugh | |
Unknown Binding: 342
Pages
(1936)
Asin: B0006ANJNO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837,: His life and literary heritage (with an English bibliography) ([The American Russian institute for cultural relations with the Soviet union]Special publication) by Samuel Hazzard Cross | |
Unknown Binding: 79
Pages
(1943)
Asin: B0007H2R70 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. Mozart and Salieri: The Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Antony Wood | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(1987-10)
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13. The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Antony Wood, Simon Brett | |
Hardcover: 116
Pages
(2006-02-28)
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14. Golden Cockerel by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Hardcover:
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(1962-06)
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15. Alexander Pushkin: A Symposium on the 175th Anniversary of His Birth (New York University Slavic Papers) | |
Hardcover: 220
Pages
(1976-01-01)
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16. Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Walter W. Arndt | |
Hardcover: 545
Pages
(1983-05)
list price: US$65.00 Isbn: 0804711429 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Pushkin defines Russian literature This edition of the complete prose of Pushkin is truly excellent. The Queen of Spades and the Captain's Daughter are included are and are worth the price alone. The translators, Arndt and Debreczeny, do a fine job in translating Pushkin's prose, while the stories are set up in chronological order so the reader can see Pushkin's growth as a prose writer. In fact this was the volume of Pushkin writings in English I took with me while living in Russia for a short while. Very readable and a worthwhile introduction to the greatest of Russian writers.
Excellent walk through Pushkin's prose maturation That would be amazing for me: to know Russian and read Pushkin in the language that he raised high in the face of the patrician encroachment of French that had relegated Russian to servant status.Each language must have a unique and valuable propriety in it's innermost meanings, and in reading this work (plus knowing something of Russian culture), I believe you can feel that unique Russian "thing" even through this translation. You have about fifteen pieces plus Pushkin's own pre-work/research and some fragments.Mr. Debreczeny has arranged them such that you walk through the development of Pushkin as a prose writer.Early on, he did have quite a disdain for prose in comparison to poetry.To paraphrase Debreczeny, Pushkin's first serious writing treated prose as a necessary evil, writing with technical correctness but approaching parody of itself with strict adherence to the concept of prose as a sterile, low medium for expression. I the later works, you will see the layering of complex themes and characters into prose that for me felt like driving a standard shift with power-assisted steering -- You get just enough resistance to feel the road and keep you engaged and thinking.Also, you just plain enjoy the ride. Mr. Debreczeny is an excellent guide in his commentary and in his translation. ... Read more |
17. After Pushkin: Versions of the Poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets (Poetry Pleiade) by Alexander Pushkin | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(1999-01-01)
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18. The Golden Cockerel, and Other Stories by Aleksandr Sergeevich, Pushkin | |
School & Library Binding:
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(1969-01)
list price: US$37.00 Isbn: 0531018954 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Gillon R. Aitken | |
Paperback: 495
Pages
(1968-09)
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Customer Reviews (4)
so this is literature . . .
The Best of Them All Unfortunately, Pushkin is given short shrift outside of his homeland.The reason is not hard to explain - most of his work is poetry, which translates badly.What's worse, even in translation his poetry wouldn't read any better than, say, Lermontov, whereas the difference would be obvious to a Russian, just as the difference between Shakespeare and Marlowe would be to an English speaker. Pushkin's prose works provide a basis for remedying the situation. His stories are disarmingly simple and readable, just like his poetry.Yet practically every major Russian novelist of the nineteenth century acknowledged his debt to Pushkin as a model and crafter of prose, as well as a source of themes.This includes Gogol, Goncharov, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. My personal favorites are "The Captain's Daughter", "The Moor of Peter the Great", which is about Pushkin's own great grandfather, who was Ethiopian, and most of all "The Queen of Spades", which practically singlehandedly created the genre of stories of the supernatural.Any one of the stories can be done in one sitting (well, maybe one long sitting for a few of them).Do yourself a favor and make the acquaintance of one of the best writers that ever lived.
Pushkin's Genius Never Fails to Give Us Pleasure!
Master of Short Stories: Pushkin |
20. Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |
Paperback: 471
Pages
(1981-06)
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Pushkin Rocks!
Fantastic translation
An Excellent Translation |
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