Complete Prose Tales
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2008
Summary
A definitive modern translation of these immensely enjoyable stories.
TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY GILLON AITKEN
Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin’s universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature.
Gillon Aitken’s distinguished translation is the only volume that contains all his prose fiction, including some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099529477 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099529475 |
| Author: | Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin, Gillon Aitken |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 373g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Pushkin is Russia’s answer to Shakespeare, the acknowledged creator of the language Russians’ speak today
Pushkin is Russia’s answer to Shakespeare, the acknowledged creator of the language Russians’ speak today * The Times *
Anything by Pushkin is bound to be more enjoyable than anything by anyone else, and this fresh translation is like a new vintage of Chateau Lafitte * Financial Times *
To be Russian means to love Pushkin – Vladimir Nabokov
He is the lasting wonder of Russian literature * Guardian *
Pushkin took the clumsy carthorse that was the literary Russian of his time and transformed it into a Pegasus * Sunday Times *
Pushkin has been cherished equally by Slavophiles and west-ern-isers, by tsars and Communists, by peasants and aristocrats * Financial Times *
Pushkin’s genius was to be, in his work, both Russian and universal; to unite beauty, strength, wit, playfulness, grace and an ability to touch the heart. He left a legacy that is a glory of world literature * Scotland on Sunday *
Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin was born in 1799 in Moscow. He began writing poetry at a young age and was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for composing revolutionary epigrams. He also lost his job in the civil service in 1824 because of his writing. He married Natalia Goncharova in 1832 and died in a duel defending her honour in 1837. He is considered Russia’s greatest poet but in the last part of his career focussed his attention on writing his prose tales.
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