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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
Alexander Pushkin
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Description for Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
Paperback. James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. Translator(s): Falen, James E. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies which confront greed, envy, ... Read more
'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies which confront greed, envy, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554041
SKU
V9780199554041
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About Alexander Pushkin
James E. Falen has translated Eugene Onegin for OWC. Caryl Emerson is the author of books on Mikhail Bakhtin, a biography of Musorgsky in CUP's 'Musical Lives' series, and the co-author of The Uncensored Boris Godunov (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) which includes a new translation of Boris Godunov by Antony Wood. Her Introduction to Russian Literature is due ... Read more
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