Pushkin And Russian Literature
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in world literature cast as long a shadow as Alexander Pushkin, the titan of Russian letters whose genius reshaped an entire national tradition. Janko Lavrin's Pushkin and Russian Literature presents a rigorous and illuminating study of Pushkin's life, his poetry, and the seismic influence he exerted upon the course of Russian literary culture — tracing the golden threads that run from his verse novels and lyric poems through the great prose masters who followed in his wake. Lavrin, a distinguished Slavic scholar and critic, brings formidable erudition and a Continental sensibility to bear on his subject, arguing with conviction that Pushkin is not merely a national poet but a universal one, whose achievements in language and form are as transformative as those of Shakespeare or Goethe. Written in a style that is both scholarly and accessible, the work situates Pushkin within the broader romantic and realist currents of 19th-century European literature, illuminating the currents of biography, folklore, and political exile that charged his art. For anyone seeking to understand Russian literature at its very roots, this study is an indispensable guide — and a reminder that all roads in Russian fiction lead back to one extraordinary man.
Author: Janko Lavrin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in world literature cast as long a shadow as Alexander Pushkin, the titan of Russian letters whose genius reshaped an entire national tradition. Janko Lavrin's Pushkin and Russian Literature presents a rigorous and illuminating study of Pushkin's life, his poetry, and the seismic influence he exerted upon the course of Russian literary culture — tracing the golden threads that run from his verse novels and lyric poems through the great prose masters who followed in his wake. Lavrin, a distinguished Slavic scholar and critic, brings formidable erudition and a Continental sensibility to bear on his subject, arguing with conviction that Pushkin is not merely a national poet but a universal one, whose achievements in language and form are as transformative as those of Shakespeare or Goethe. Written in a style that is both scholarly and accessible, the work situates Pushkin within the broader romantic and realist currents of 19th-century European literature, illuminating the currents of biography, folklore, and political exile that charged his art. For anyone seeking to understand Russian literature at its very roots, this study is an indispensable guide — and a reminder that all roads in Russian fiction lead back to one extraordinary man.