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Just Because a Famous Guy Wrote It. . .

Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose by Alexander Pushkin

September 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr15 bingo Europe When I saw Pushkin’s name on this, it was very familiar of course, but I couldn’t remember reading anything by him.  Come to find out, he may be the Father of Russian Literature, but he’s a poet, and I mostly do novels.  But the familiar feeling I was getting was because he was also the go-to source for the Russian romantic composers, a genre I have always loved.  Ruslan and Lyudmila?  Overture by Glinka.  Eugene Onegin?  An opera by Tchaikovsky, best known […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance, Short Stories Tagged With: alexander pushkin, cbr15 bingo Europe, Don't leave us hanging man, family business, Music adjacent, Prose is hard to write, Russian Literature

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance, Short Stories · Tags: alexander pushkin, cbr15 bingo Europe, Don't leave us hanging man, family business, Music adjacent, Prose is hard to write, Russian Literature ·
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

May 16, 2019 by vel veeter 3 Comments

I probably wouldn’t have ever read this novel in any other setting, form, or product than this one.   What I found is this: https://tinyurl.com/y2wcr6yp I found downloads of Stephen Fry, of Stephen Fry fame, reading Alexander Pushkin’s seminal Russian novel Eugene Onegin. If you don’t know it, like I mostly didn’t, it’s a relatively short novel, but it’s written entirely in verse. It sets up the argument about the importance of poetry and the supreme imminence of Russian poets of the 19th century both […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alexander pushkin, eugene onegin

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:268 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alexander pushkin, eugene onegin ·
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