Nella traduzione di Landolfi i tre piu celebri racconti di Puskin: Il fabbricante di bare, Il mastro di posta, La dama di picche. Landolfi riversa nella traduzione italiana la febbrile ricerca di novita e perfezione verbale del testo russo, insieme a quel dinamismo narrativo che pone il lettore in un nuovo sorprendente rapporto con l''idea di liberta.
Dai giorni della sua breve vita fino ad oggi i versi di Puskin non hanno mai abbandonato la memoria della Russia. Tradurre Puskin e stato sempre considerato una prova durissima e della piu alta importanza, come se dalla conoscenza di questo poeta dipendesse la conoscenza di tutta una civilta letteraria. I poemi e le liriche raccolti in questo volume delineano un panorama di tutta la sua produzione poetica dal 1815 al 1837.
Aleksander Sergueevich Pushkin (1799-1837) es uno de los literatos más ilustres que ha producido Rusia. Su mérito no consiste solamente en el ingenio, en la amenidad o en el arte con que combina las escenas y despierta el interes de los lectores, sino especialmente en la belleza del lenguaje, en la pureza del lexico y en la riqueza y variedad de las formas gramaticales. Pushkin fue quien dio al idioma ruso aquel pulimento que hizo de el una de las lenguas literarias mas bellas de Europa. Los relatos que aparecen reunidos en este libro La hidalga campesina, Azar en el juego y El desafio representan una magnifica muestra del arte literario de Pushkin y describen a la perfeccion las costumbres y los caracteres de la Rusia del siglo XIX.
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancee - Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary - was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century.
Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin' and the short novel 'The Captain's Daughter', which has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.
Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, was fascinated by Russia's folk history, adapting its fairy tales into captivating poetic versions. In the early twentieth century, the book illustrator Ivan Bilibin likewise fell under the spell of Old Russia, drawing on both folk motifs and art nouveau to produce beautiful illustrations to accompany Pushkin's poems. This irresistible new edition presents three of Pushkin's fairy tales - 'Tsar Saltan', 'A Fisherman and a Little Fish' and 'The Golden Cockerel' - in versions by the acclaimed translator Antony Wood, alongside Bilibin's sumptuous original illustrations. The result is an enchanting window into Russian poetry, fairy tales and magic.
Piotr Andréyevich llega con su fiel criado Savélich a la fortaleza Belogórskaya. Allí se enamora de María Ivánovna, la hija del capitán. Por culpa de la interpretación de un poema, Piotr se bate en duelo con Alexei Ivanich Shvabrin, del que sale mal parado. Ante la amenaza de la posible incursion de Pugachov, la fortaleza se prepara militarmente; tras el asalto, Piotr se libra por suerte de la horca y Pugachov queda en la fortaleza. El joven Andreyevich recibe un aviso de ir a servir militarmente a Oremburgo. Una vez alli se entera de que Maria ha sido hecha prisionera y van a obligarla a casarse con Shvabrin. Piotr va a liberarla. Despues le juzgaran por abandonar su puesto y apoyar supuestamente al traidor. En el final, moderadamente feliz, interviene la hija del capitan ante la propia emperatriz.
