‘Pushkin’s Secret’: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin takes a variety of approaches. Some contributors to the collection trace the way Pushkin’s works provided the template for the characters and stories which were produced in the first decades after his untimely death in 1837. Others reveal the impact the myths surrounding Pushkin’s tragic life were used (and abused) by followers, as well as governments of various hues. Yet other studies explore the very precise ways Pushkin’s successors used his texts as source material for their own works. ‘Pushkin’s Secret’: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin offers a series of fascinating insights into the impact that Alexander Pushkin has had on Russian culture over the last 200 years.
‘Pushkin’s Secret’: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin will be followed by two further volumes devoted to Pushkin within the SSLP series, Pushkin: Myth and Monument and Pushkin’s Legacy.
Contents: Preface. Notes on Contributors. Joe ANDREW: Introduction: Pushkin’s Secret. Joe ANDREW: ‘[She] was brought up on French novels and, consequently, was in love’: Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin. Lyubov KISELEVA: Pushkin in the Mirror of Shakhovskoi. Sander BROUWER: The Bridegroom Who Did Not Come: Social and Amorous Unproductivity from Pushkin to the Silver Age. Barbara LÖNNQVIST: The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina. Henrietta MONDRY: On the Subjectivism in Pushkin’s Universality: The Case of Rozanov. Diana L. BURGIN: Tsvetaeva’s Three Pushkins. Christoph VELDHUES: Love and Death in Pushkin’s The Stone Guest and Nabokov’s Death. Justin DOHERTY: The Pushkin Contexts of Georgii Ivanov’s Disintegration of the Atom. Jekaterina YOUNG: Dovlatov’s Sanctuary and Pushkin. Valentina POLUKHINA: Pushkin and Brodsky: the Art of Self-deprecation. Stephanie SANDLER: Pushkin among Contemporary Poets: Self and Song in Sedakova. Helena GOSCILO: Casting and Recasting the Caucasian Captive. Index
