Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pu

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Universally acknowledged as Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin wrote with the rich, prolific creative powers of a Mozart or a Shakespeare. His prose spans a remarkable range, from satires to epistolary tales, from light comedies to romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott, from travel narratives to historical fiction. The haunting dream world of "The Queen of Spades" draws on his own experiences with high-stakes society gambling. The five short stories of The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin are deceptively light as they reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, a love story set during the Cossack rebellion against Catherine the Great, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature. By turns daringly dramatic and sparklingly comic, written in the exquisite cadences of a master, Novels, Tales, Journeys captures the essence of nineteenth-century Russia—and gives us, in one comprehensive volume, the work with which Pushkin laid the foundations of his country's great prose tradition.

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Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a poet, playwright, and novelist who achieved literary prominence before he was twenty. His radical politics led to government censorship and periods of banishment from the capital, but he eventually married a popular society beauty and be­came a regular part of court life. Notoriously touchy about his honor, he died at age thirty-seven in a duel with his wife's alleged lover.Together, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married and live in France.

Review

"A wonderful book. . . . [The] most iconic of Russian writers." —The Washington Post"Brilliant. . . . [Pushkin] took up narrative prose on a whim, but, as this collection makes clear, he mastered it gloriously." —Los Angeles Review of Books"Displays the author's immersion in Russian life even more directly than the poetry that has come to define his legacy." —The New Criterion

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" Novels, Tales, and Journeys , a new translation of Pushkin's prose, displays the author's immersion in Russian life even more directly than the poetry that has come to define his legacy; short novels like The Captain's Daughter present Pushkin's thoughts on social strife without the intermediate layer of verse." -- New Criterion "Brilliant. . . . [Pushkin] took up narrative prose on a whim, but, as this collection makes clear, he mastered it gloriously." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Superb gathering of writings by the short-lived author Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), best known as a poet--but, argues translator Pevear, also 'the true originator of Russian prose.' Scholars will argue over whether Evgeny Onegin is novel or poem, but this anthology makes a clear distinction between verse and prose, then gathers all of Pushkin's prose writings, down to a few delicious fragments. One of them, it seems, was enough to inspire Leo Tolstoy to build the novelistic world of Anna Karenina around just a few words. . . . All the universal emotions and realities are in play, from jealousy to greed and overweening ambition, and Pevear and his longtime partner Volokhonsky render Pushkin's words in an easy, conversational tone that is very far from the fustiness of the Constance Garnett renderings of old. The completed pieces are masterful, but the fragments are tantalizing; one wonders what Pushkin would have done had he lived to complete the piece that begins, 'My fate is decided. I am getting married. . . . ' A long overdue collection that speaks truly and well to Pushkin's brilliance as a prose stylist as well as observer of the world." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Excerpt from Book

Introduction Alexander Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on the afternoon of January 27, 1837, at Chernaya Rechka, just outside Petersburg. "It is thus that the figure of Pushkin remains in our memory--with a pistol," Andrei Sinyavsky wrote in Strolls with Pushkin.* "Little Pushkin with a big pistol. A civilian, but louder than a soldier. A general. An ace. Push

Details ISBN0307949885 Author Alexander Pushkin Pages 512 Series Vintage Classics Language English Year 2017 ISBN-10 0307949885 ISBN-13 9780307949882 Format Paperback Short Title Novels, Tales, Journeys Subtitle The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2017-10-17 NZ Release Date 2017-10-17 US Release Date 2017-10-17 UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2017-10-17 Imprint Vintage Books DEWEY 891.733 Audience General We've got this

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