Boris Godunov. Little Tragedies. Dramatic Works, Poems
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Boris Godunov. Little Tragedies. Dramatic Works, Poems
5.99 €
4.79 €
"Little Tragedies" and "Boris Godunov" - the peaks of Russian dramaturgy of the first half of the XIX century. In 1825, while in exile in Mikhailovsky, Pushkin wrote the tragedy "Boris Godunov". "The study of Shakespeare, Karamzin and our old chronicles gave me the idea to put in dramatic forms of one of the most dramatic epochs of modern history," - Pushkin wrote about the emergence of the idea of the plot relating to the era of the Troubles. Having completed work on the play, in which the main theme was the struggle for power and the Russian throne, the poet admitted in a letter to his friend P. A. Vyazemsky: "My tragedy is over; I read it aloud, alone, and beat my hands, and shouted, ay da Pushkin! ay da son of a bitch!". The cycle "Little Tragedies" was written in 1830 in Boldin, it is devoted to human passions - subjugating all thoughts and feelings. Each protagonist is obsessed with such a passion - whether it is the acquisition of treasure, love, creativity or thirst for immortality. And each of them is a voluntary slave to his passion, which is not enough to subordinate it to his personal existence, he wants to subordinate it to the whole world. The edition includes Pushkin's unfinished dramatic works - "Rusalka" and "Scenes from Knightly Times" - as well as selected poems.
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