Strolls With Pushkin

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."

List of contents

Introduction
Strolls with Pushkin
A Journey to the River Black
Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski
Notes
Notes on the Text

About the author

Andrei Sinyavsky, Translated by Catherine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava I. Yastremski

Report

"This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language." - Cathy Porter, Independent

Product details

• Authors: Andrej Sinjawskij, 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2016
• EAN: 9780231180818
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18081-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Russian Library; Russian Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic 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