Strolls with Pushkin

by Andrei Sinyavsky

Book Overview

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 migr s 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180810
• ISBN13: 9780231180818
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"