The Little Tragedies

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Название: The Little Tragedies | Маленькие трагедии

Издатель: Yale University Press

Автор: Alexander Pushkin | Александр Пушкин

Серия: Russian Literature and Thought Series

Переводчик: Nancy Anderson

Год: 2000

Страниц: 230

Формат: pdf

Язык: English

Размер: 669 КБ

ISBN: 978-0300080278

Качество: хорошее

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The Little Tragedies

«Маленькие трагедии» сборник А. С. Пушкина написан в 1830 году в Болдино, состоит из 4-x произведений, они посвящены негативным человеческим страстям:

• Скупой рыцарь

• Моцарт и Сальери

• Каменный гость

• Пир во время чумы

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies.

" The "little tragedies" stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature, yet they were last translated into English a quarter-century ago and have in recent years been out of print entirely. In this outstanding new translation, Nancy K. Anderson preserves the cadence and intensity of Pushkin's work while aligning it with today's poetic practices and freer approach to metrics.

In addition she provides critical essays examining each play in depth, a discussion of her approach to translating the plays, and a consideration of the genre of these dramatic pieces and their performability.

The four "little tragedies"-Mozart and Salieri, The Miserly Knight, The Stone Guest, and A Feast During the Plague-are extremely compressed dialogues, each dealing with a dominant protagonist whose central internal conflict determines both the plot and structure of the play.

Pushkin focuses on human passions and the interplay between free will and fate: though each protagonist could avoid self-ruin, instead he freely chooses it.