The Pushkin Handbook

Download or read book The Pushkin Handbook written by David M. Bethea and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pushkin Handbook, a collection of studies by leading Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America, and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue. From its beginnings, Pushkin’s oeuvre has accommodated numerous, often competing readings. This book is further testimony to the continuing complexity of Russia’s preeminent writer: his place in the literary and cultural cosmos, his relationship to his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, and his reception and interpretation at various points in history.