Pushkin: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: glue residue on endpapers;
Few literary lives burn as brilliantly—and end as tragically—as that of Alexander Pushkin, the towering genius of Russian letters whose poetry and prose forged the modern Russian language itself. Henri Troyat's monumental biography chronicles the full arc of Pushkin's extraordinary existence: from his African-descended ancestry and rebellious youth in St. Petersburg, through his years of political exile imposed by a suspicious Tsarist regime, to the fatal duel in 1837 that silenced one of the nineteenth century's most luminous voices at just thirty-seven years of age. Drawing on a vast wealth of letters, memoirs, and archival sources, Troyat paints an intimate and richly textured portrait of a man consumed equally by creative passion, romantic obsession, and the crushing pressures of Imperial Russian society. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and himself a master of the biographical form, Troyat writes with novelistic sweep and scholarly precision, situating Pushkin's turbulent personal life against the grand backdrop of an era defined by revolution, Romanticism, and autocratic power. The result is a biography that reads with the propulsive energy of fiction, illuminating why Pushkin remains, to this day, Russia's most beloved and mythologised literary hero — and leaving the reader to wonder whether his society ultimately destroyed the very genius it claimed to revere.
Author: Henri Troyat
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: glue residue on endpapers;
Few literary lives burn as brilliantly—and end as tragically—as that of Alexander Pushkin, the towering genius of Russian letters whose poetry and prose forged the modern Russian language itself. Henri Troyat's monumental biography chronicles the full arc of Pushkin's extraordinary existence: from his African-descended ancestry and rebellious youth in St. Petersburg, through his years of political exile imposed by a suspicious Tsarist regime, to the fatal duel in 1837 that silenced one of the nineteenth century's most luminous voices at just thirty-seven years of age. Drawing on a vast wealth of letters, memoirs, and archival sources, Troyat paints an intimate and richly textured portrait of a man consumed equally by creative passion, romantic obsession, and the crushing pressures of Imperial Russian society. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and himself a master of the biographical form, Troyat writes with novelistic sweep and scholarly precision, situating Pushkin's turbulent personal life against the grand backdrop of an era defined by revolution, Romanticism, and autocratic power. The result is a biography that reads with the propulsive energy of fiction, illuminating why Pushkin remains, to this day, Russia's most beloved and mythologised literary hero — and leaving the reader to wonder whether his society ultimately destroyed the very genius it claimed to revere.