Walks with Pushkin
Author: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publisher:
Published: 1988-12-01
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ISBN-13: 9780002629676
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Strolls with Pushkin
Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0231543271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrei 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."
The Man who Walked Through Walls
Author: Marcel Ayme
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1908968206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ...
The Last and the First
Author: Nina Berberova
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1782276971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova’s debut novel: an intense story of family conflict and the struggle over the future of émigré life On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled the ruins of the Russian Revolution, they have endured crushing labour to set up a small farm in Provence. For young Ilya Stepanovich, this is to be the future of Russian life in France; for some of his Paris-dwelling countrymen, it is a betrayal of roots, culture and the path back to the motherland. Now, with the arrival of a letter from the capital and a figure from the family's past, their fragile stability is threatened by a plot to lure Ilya's step-brother Vasya back to Russia. In prose of masterful poise and restraint, Nina Berberova dramatises the passionate internal struggles of a generation of Russian émigrés. Translated into English for the first time by the acclaimed Marian Schwartz, The Last and the First marks a unique contribution to Russian literature.
Labyrinth 2
Author: Jim McGhee
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2012-12-14
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0761859810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabyrinth 2 provides a taxonomy of the plays Don Nigro has written over the past ten years. For those interested in producing Nigro’s work, this book provides a summary of the action of each script, characters required, costume, set, lighting, and sound requirements. Producers and directors of professional, academic, and community theatres will find it a useful guide to scripts they may wish to buy from Samuel French, Inc. Accounts of plays written prior to 2001 may be found in Labyrinth: Plays of Don Nigro, also published by University Press of America.
Commemorating Pushkin
Author: Stephanie Sandler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780804734486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations.
Pushkin
Author: T.J. Binyon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 0307427374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife. In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art.
Today I Wrote Nothing
Author: Daniel Kharms
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1468316109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.
The Joy of Walking
Author: Stephen Christopher Joyner
Publisher: Betterway Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuide to walking not only as an excellent exercise, but an all purpose pastime.
Before the Wall Came Down
Author: Graham Petrie
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780819178596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of a conference on the topic of Soviet and East European film makers working in the West held at McMaster University in Ontario in March 1989. The volume considers Soviet, Polish, Czech and Hungarian cinema, with particular emphasis on the films by Milos Forman and Jerzy Skolimowski.
