Strolls with Pushkin - (Russian Library) by Andrei Sinyavsky (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Andrei Sinyavsky wrote <i>Strolls with Pushkin</i> while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Andrei Sinyavsky wrote <i>Strolls with Pushkin</i> while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems. This new edition of <i>Strolls with Pushkin</i> also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, "Journey to the River Black."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Strolls</i> deserves a prominent placer on university library bookshelves and in the syllabi of courses dealing with twentieth-century Russian and European literature.--Jerome H. Katsell, Independent Scholar "Slavic and East European Journal "<br><br><i>Strolls with Pushkin</i> is an exhilarating tribute to the power of art.--Rose France "Translation and Literature "<br><br>Comprised of two separate essays written over a quarter century apart--the first smuggled out of a Soviet labor camp in letters to his wife--Sinyavsky's writing on Pushkin, here collected in Columbia University Press's new Russian Library, is a reminder that irreverence has its magic.--Nicholas Dames "Public Books "<br><br>Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz was one of the most gifted Russian writers of the postwar era. Most of his work is now in print in Russia, but most of the English translations seem to have gone out of print. It will be an excellent thing if Strolls with Pushkin leads us back to him. We need his free and welcoming spirit more than ever.--Richard Pevear "The Hudson Review "<br><br>A playful appreciation of Pushkin's playfulness.--Gary Saul Morson "New York Review of Books "<br><br>Enhancing this accessible translation of a subtle and complex text, Catharine Nepomnyashchy has written a fine introduction to summarize Pushkin's life, works and subsequent cult status.--Phoebe Taplin "Russia Beyond the Headlines "<br><br>Given its title, Sinyavsky's work is appropriately rambling and easygoing, but also brilliantly iconoclastic about this most iconic of Russian writers.--Michael Dirda "Washington Post "<br><br>In his alter ego as Tertz, Sinyavsky was the David to every institutional Goliath, picking off the monumental cult of the national poet of the Stalin period and the sentimentalized icon of Russia Abroad. His shock tactics were Pushkinian: irreverent wit, conversational tone, thinking outside the box. And guess what? Pushkin was no saint, but his genius is supremely alive and human in this brilliant appreciation. All readers should find in this spirited classic of literary and cultural criticism, vibrantly translated, expertly introduced and annotated, license to our own individual musings with two great writers and writing.--Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford<br><br>In the guise of a spirited, iconoclastic study of the presiding deity of Russian literature, the great Andrei Sinyavsky (writing as his bolder alter ego, Abram Tertz) has composed an ardent and fastidious attack on philistinism in all its forms: literary, psychological, and political.--Susan Sontag<br><br>This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language.--Cathy Porter, <i>Independent</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Andrei Sinyavsky (1925-1997) was a writer of fiction and nonfiction. After emigrating to France in 1973, he taught for many years as professor of Slavic studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. <p/>Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015) was professor of Russian at Barnard College. <p/>Slava I. Yastremski (1952-2015) was professor of Russian at Bucknell University.
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