Peter the Great's African
Experiments in Prose
Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.Alexander Pushkin, Russia's foundational writer, was constantly experimenting with new genres, and this fresh selection ushers readers into his creative laboratory. Politics and history weighed heavily on Pushkin's imagination, and in Peter the Great's African he depicts the Tsar through the eyes of one of his closest confidantes, Ibrahim, a former slave, modeled on Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather. At once outsider and insider, Ibrahim offers a sympathetic yet questioning view of Peter's attempt to integrate his vast, archai…
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Weitere Autoren: Chandler, Robert / Dralyuk, Boris / Chandler, Robert / Chandler, Elizabeth
- ISBN: 978-1-68137-599-1
- EAN: 9781681375991
- Produktnummer: 36086870
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
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Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) is considered Russia’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. His novel The Captain’s Daughter is available from NYRB Classics. Robert Chandler has translated many NYRB Classics, including Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate and Stalingrad, as well as Andrey Platonov’s Soul and The Foundation Pit. Boris Dralyuk’s most recent translations include Leo Tolstoy’s Lives and Deaths and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees. He is a translator of Maxim Osipov’s Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories and Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames, both published by NYRB Classics.
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