What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths
because there’s more than Dostoyevsky and Chekov . . .
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Posts Tagged: Pushkin
Riding On Trains With Pushkin
A city in Siberia is reportedly offering free rides on the underground to people who can recite at least two verses from any poem by Alexander Pushkin, one of Russia’s greatest poets.
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The New Yorker pulled this from Pushkin’s “The Wagon of Life;” it contains swearing: At dawn we jump inside the wagon. Happy to break our necks like glass, We scorn life’s hedonistic languor, And yell “Man, fuck it! Just haul ass!” It’s not by accident they chose this particular passage. Swearing is close to the […]
...more“The Czar and the Poet”
When the people followed the Communists at the beginning of the twentieth century, they gave up Christ, but they found it impossible, as the revolutionary poets exhorted them, “to throw Pushkin overboard the steamboat of modernity.” Prominent Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin has an essay up at The New Republic, translated from Russian, about the fundamental conflicts […]
...moreQueen of Spades
Illustrations by Gennady Yepifanov (Г. Епифанова) for Pushkin’s Queen of Spades, 1966:
...morePitt on Parker
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
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