Walks with Pushkin
Author : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1988-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780002629676
Strolls with Pushkin
Author : Andrei Sinyavsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231543271
Book Description
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 émigrés 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 Sinyavsky's 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."
The Man who Walked Through Walls
Author : Marcel Ayme
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908968206
Book Description
The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ...
Labyrinth 2
Author : Jim McGhee
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0761859810
Book Description
Labyrinth 2 provides a taxonomy of the plays Don Nigro has written over the past ten years. For those interested in producing Nigro’s work, this book provides a summary of the action of each script, characters required, costume, set, lighting, and sound requirements. Producers and directors of professional, academic, and community theatres will find it a useful guide to scripts they may wish to buy from Samuel French, Inc. Accounts of plays written prior to 2001 may be found in Labyrinth: Plays of Don Nigro, also published by University Press of America.
Commemorating Pushkin
Author : Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804734486
Book Description
Commemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations.
The Last and the First
Author : Nina Berberova
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782276971
Book Description
The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova’s debut novel: an intense story of family conflict and the struggle over the future of émigré life On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled the ruins of the Russian Revolution, they have endured crushing labour to set up a small farm in Provence. For young Ilya Stepanovich, this is to be the future of Russian life in France; for some of his Paris-dwelling countrymen, it is a betrayal of roots, culture and the path back to the motherland. Now, with the arrival of a letter from the capital and a figure from the family's past, their fragile stability is threatened by a plot to lure Ilya's step-brother Vasya back to Russia. In prose of masterful poise and restraint, Nina Berberova dramatises the passionate internal struggles of a generation of Russian émigrés. Translated into English for the first time by the acclaimed Marian Schwartz, The Last and the First marks a unique contribution to Russian literature.
Today I Wrote Nothing
Author : Daniel Kharms
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468316109
Book Description
Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.
The Joy of Walking
Author : Stephen Christopher Joyner
Publisher : Betterway Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Book Description
Guide to walking not only as an excellent exercise, but an all purpose pastime.
Pushkin
Author : T.J. Binyon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307427374
Book Description
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife. In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art.
Pushkin
Author : Jonathan Leaf
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781955389006
Book Description
Based on the actual events of the last years of the life of the part-black Russian romantic poet, "Pushkin" combines the dramatic intensity of a Shakespearean tragedy with an unadorned poetic style alike to that of Frost or Yeats. First performed in New York in 2018, it received a series of rave reviews hailing it as a modern classic. The Wall Street Journal picked it as one of the four best plays of the year along with new dramas by Oscar winners Tom Stoppard and Martin McDonagh and two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage while First Things magazine called it "an extraordinary achievement...a work that will stand the test of time."
