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Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Literature and Thought Series)
Strolls with Pushkin - Russian Literature and Thought Series Author:Abram Tertz, Andrei Sinyavski Andrei Sinyavsky, who writes under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, is one of the most eminent Russian literary figures of the post-Stalin period, and his Strolls with Pushkin is among the most controversial Russian literary texts of the past three decades. When first published in 1975, the book was praised by Western critics as a brilliant critical ... more »work on Pushkin, while Russian critics violently attacked it for its irreverent portrait of their country`s greatest and most beloved poet. With this first English translation, English-speaking audiences can now appreciate Tertz`s provocative portrait of Pushkin and the Russian culture for which he is the chief icon.« less