Alexander Pushkin : Complete Prose Fiction.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837, translator.

Debreczeny, Paul, translator.

Arndt, Walter, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. This is a new translation of all his prose fiction, from his famous story "The Queen of Spades" down to unfinished stories and fragments that appear in English for the first time. Pushkin's non-fictional A History of Pugachev, also translated into English for the first time, is included because it furnished the historical background of his novel The Captain's Daughter. The translator has taken care to achieve a balance between faithfulness to the original and readability in English, and several Russian editions have been collated to establish an accurate text. The translations are annotated to place each work in its historical context, and to eluvidate passages not easily understandable to today's reader. Appendixes present a chapter that Pushkin deleted from The Captain's Daughter; fictional fragments; Pushkin's outlines of projected works; and the apocryphal novella The Lonely Cottage on Vasilev Island.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Translator's Note

Introduction

PART ONE Prose Fiction

The Blackamoor of Peter the Great

The Guests Were Arriving at the Dacha

In the Corner of a Small Square

A Novel in Letters

The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

A History of the Village of Goriukhino

Roslavlev

Dubrovskii

The Queen of Spades

Kirdzhali

A Tale of Roman Life

Egyptian Nights

Maria Schoning

The Captain's Daughter

PART TWO A History of Pugachev

A History of Pugachev

Chapters One-Eight

Appendixes

APPENDIX A Omitted Chapter from 'The Captain's Daughter'

APPENDIX B Minor Fictional Fragments

APPENDIX C Outlines of Projected Works

APPENDIX D The Lonely Cottage on Vasilev Island

Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2096-4

OCLC:

1322125286