Strolls With Pushkin

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged emigres and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.

Summary

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.

Product details

• Authors: Andrei Sinyavsky, Sinyavsky Andrei
• Assisted by: Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Translation), Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Translation), Nepomnyashchy Catharine (Translation), Slava Yastremski (Translation), Slava I. Yastremski (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2016
• EAN: 9780231180801
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18080-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Russian Library; Russian Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Russian, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet