Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose Pushkin Alexander
Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.This volume presents Pushkin at his most questioning and experimental. Peter the…
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Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.This volume presents Pushkin at his most questioning and experimental. Peter the Great's African is his first attempt at representing the man he saw as the most important of all Russian tsars. Here Pushkin presents him from the perspective of Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather, a former African slave whom Peter the Great educated and made into one of his closest confidants; Pushkin's central concern in this story is the success or failure of Peter's attempt to refashion his vast, archaic empire and turn it into an integral part of Europe.The History of the Village of Goriukhino--one of Pushkin's wittiest works--shows him grappling, through parody and self-parody, with the question of what it means to write history; it points the way towards the serious,