
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
Translation by James E. Falen
Alexander Pushkin(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 8. March 2007
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Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-921130-2 (ISBN)
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'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy , while Rusalka is a tragedy of a different kind - a lyric fairytale of despair and transformation. James E. Falen's verse translations of Pushkin's dramas are here accompanied by an Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
208 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-921130-2 (9780199211302)
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Introduction
A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
Translation
Retired Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee
Content
Boris Godunov; A Scene from Faust; The Miserly Knight; Mozart and Salieri; The Stone Guest; A Feast in Time of Plague; Rusalka (The Water-Nymph)