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by: Alexander Pushkin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780199211302
ISBN: 0199211302
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 02, 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 695389
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Alexander Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies, which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy, while Rusalka is a tragedy of a different kind--a lyric fairytale of despair and transformation.
Here, James E. Falen's verse translations are accompanied by a first-rate introduction from Caryl Emerson, an equally distinguished Russianist, which emphasizes the cosmopolitan nature of Pushkin's drama, the position of Russian culture on the European stage, together with excellent analyses of the individual works in the volume. Falen's translations of Pushkin are widely admired and his OWC translation of Eugene Onegin is considered the best available. This collection is sure to interest both casual readers and students of Russian literature.
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Rating: - Pushkin- poet or dramatist?
For those of us who enjoy Pushkin but are necessarily restricted to translations, it is a boon to have the dramatic works now conveniently available in one volume.The liveliness of the translation, which was such a feature of Falen's translation of Eugene Onegin, makes these works a delight to read.It is said that the five dramatic works contain some of the author's most famous lines, which generations of Russian students have learnt by heart, but they are rarely performed, and are seriously flawed ... Read More
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