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Strolls With Pushkin

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Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife.

His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged migrs and Soviet scholars alike, yet his disrespect was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him.

Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavskys strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems.

This new edition of Strolls with Pushkin also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, Journey to the River Black.

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Product Details
Columbia University Press
0231543271 / 9780231543279
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
06/12/2016
English
207 pages
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