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Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies
The Poetics of Brevity
Edited by Svetlana Evdokimova
A Publication of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
David M. Bethea, Series Editor
“A superb collection of essays, which promises to be an indispensable source of information and critical ideas for anyone researching, teaching, or studying Pushkin.”
—Paul Debreczeny, author of Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture
Alexander Pushkin's four compact plays, later known as The Little Tragedies, were written at the height of the author's creative powers, and their influence on many Russian and Western writers cannot be overestimated. Yet Western readers are far more familiar with Pushkin's lyrics, narrative poems, and prose than with his drama. The Little Tragedies have received few translations or scholarly examinations. Setting out to redress this and to reclaim a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, Evodokimova and her distinguished contributors offer the first thorough critical study of these plays. They examine the historical roots and connective themes of the plays, offer close readings, and track the transformation of the works into other genres.
This volume includes a significant new translation by James Falen of the plays—The Covetous Knight, Mozart and Salieri, The Stone Guest, and A Feast in Time of Plague.
Svetlana Evdokimova is a professor of Slavic studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Philosophy, Religion and Pushkin’s Historical Imagination.
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November 2003
LC: 2003007694 PG
496 pp. 6 x 9
1 b/w photo
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