The little tragedies / Alexander Pushkin ; translated, with critical essays, by Nancy K. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.

Contributor:

Anderson, Nancy K.

Series:

Russian literature and thought.

Russian literature and thought

Standardized Title:

Malenʹkie tragedii. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Translations into English.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

205 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English and Russian.

Summary:

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies." The "little tragedies" stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature, yet they were last translated into English a quarter-century ago and have in recent years been out of print entirely. In this outstanding new translation, Nancy K. Anderson preserves the cadence and intensity of Pushkin's work while aligning it with today's poetic practices and freer approach to metrics. In addition she provides critical essays examining each play in depth, a discussion of her approach to translating the plays, and a consideration of the genre of these dramatic pieces and their performability. The four "little tragedies"-Mozart and Salieri, The Miserly Knight, The Stone Guest, and A Feast During the Plague-are extremely compressed dialogues, each dealing with a dominant protagonist whose central internal conflict determines both the plot and structure of the play. Pushkin focuses on human passions and the interplay between free will and fate: though each protagonist could avoid self-ruin, instead he freely chooses it.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Little Tragedies in English: An Approach

The Miserly Knight

Mozart and Salieri

The Stone Guest

A Feast During the Plague

The Seduction of Power: The Miserly Knight

Betrayal of a Calling: Mozart and Salieri

The Weight of the Past: The Stone Guest

Survival and Memory: A Feast During the Plague

Commentary

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611730635

9781281730633

1281730637

9780300130461

0300130465

OCLC:

923587622

Publisher Number:

9780300080254