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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."
Price: $42.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
06 December 2016
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780231180801
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet
Comprised of two separate essays written over a quarter century apart—the first smuggled out of a Soviet labor camp in letters to his wife—Sinyavsky’s writing on Pushkin, here collected in Columbia University Press’s new Russian Library, is a reminder that irreverence has its magic.
Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997) was a writer of fiction and nonfiction. After emigrating to France in 1973, he taught for many years as professor of Slavic studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951–2015) was professor of Russian at Barnard College.
Slava I. Yastremski (1952–2015) was professor of Russian at Bucknell University.
Introduction
Strolls with Pushkin
A Journey to the River Black
Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski
Notes
Notes on the Text