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Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose

Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose

Pushkin, Alexander
Chandler, Robert
Dralyuk, Boris

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681375990
ISBN13: 9781681375991
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Apr 12 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.07
Language: English
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, archaic empire into Europe. In the witty History of the Village of Goriukhino Pushkin employs parody and self-parody to explore problems of writing history, while Dubrovsky is both a gripping adventure story and a vivid picture of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth century, with its class conflicts ready to boil over in violence. The Egyptian Nights, an effervescent mixture of prose and poetry, reflects on the nature of artistic inspiration and the problem of the poet's place in a rapidly changing and ever more commercialized society.

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