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Selected Poetry
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WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life – his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg – while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood’s translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin’s verse.
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| Weight | 0.24 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.8 × 19.4 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 336 |
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| Year Published | 2020-4-23 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241207134 |
| About The Author | Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799. He was exiled for his liberal views on serfdom and autocracy, but this allowed him the freedom to write some of his greatest works, including his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. He died in 1837 after being fatally wounded in a duel. Antony Wood is an editor and translator from Russian and German, and also runs the publishing house Angel Books. |
'Wood's lively translations grasp the irrepressible sense of freedom which is the poet's hallmark … Pushkin is lucky in Antony Wood. Pleasure is to be found on every page of this book' |
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| Other text | This Selected Poetry by Antony Wood supersedes all previous translations … Wood's 'The Bronze Horseman' gives us Pushkin at his most tragic. 'Count Nulin' shows him at his most light-hearted. 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' bounces along with delightful vitality. Even with the delicately musical short lyrics – still harder to translate – Wood's success rate is remarkable … The result is a more rounded picture of Pushkin – in many ways the most universal of poets |
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