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| Original Title: | Проза |
| ISBN: | 0375405496 (ISBN13: 9780375405495) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375405495 |
Alexander Pushkin
Hardcover | Pages: 603 pages Rating: 4.3 | 2975 Users | 97 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Collected Stories |
| Author | : | Alexander Pushkin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 603 pages |
| Published | : | December 21st 1999 by Everyman's Library (first published 1828) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature |
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Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate.This new and expanded Everyman’s edition of his stories includes all the mature work. In addition to such novella-length masterpieces as The Captain’s Daughter and The Tales of Belkin the collection now contains many more short pieces and the masterly History of Pugachev, a powerful account of the man who rebelled against Catherine the Great.
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Ratings: 4.3 From 2975 Users | 97 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Collected Stories
What can I say it's Pushkin!! These are the short stories that created Russian Lit out of almost nothing. If Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Gogol are great it's because they stand on Pushkin's shoulders. Just fantastic a well done translation that embodies all of the passion and pain that the Pushkin and Russia has.Pushkin died at 37 after being shot in the belly during a duel by a frenchman who supposedly cuckolded him. Which is why all of his prose fits into a 500 page book. Makes one wonder if he got trough his 40s and 50s we might have had a novel on par with Crime and Punishment or War and Peace from Pushkin. But given his predicament we are left with a small number of short stories, some of which are incomplete. Yet he still managed in his short life to become the greatest Russian poet, proof of his
This is my first Pushkins work, and i must say im surprised for its poetic simplicity and a somewhat enigmatic ambience in some of his tales, specially The Queen of Spades - that gave birth to Tchaikovskys homonym opera - and Egyptian Nights, an unfinished short story about an artists struggle to perform his inventive art, an hypnotic improviser that gets help from a famous poet. And then we have Dubrovsky, a story about power and greed, about fidelity, love and revengeand a rather
There is certainly a reason why Pushkin is the most celebrated author in Russia. His nuanced characterization of the Russian intelligentsia is way ahead of his time, foreshadowing many future philosophical analyses, like Habermas and the Vekhi. If you're interested in the unique way modernity developed in Russia, these stories are a must read.
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So. . .I've been fairly obsessed with the Russians lately; on a whim bought this book here, as well as a Collection of Tales by Gogol, Great Short Works of Dostoevsky, and also his The Idiot. And one by one I devoured them all, starting with the Idiot. I don't know what it is about those Russians that kills me (well, I do have an idea. . .but those reveries do not belong here), but during those weeks I was anticipating getting home from work like there was a fat steak waiting there for me (this
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