Pushkin Intends to Go Abroad Conflict of Mind and Heart To Greece with the Greeks Pleas and Rejections Money for Departure The Hour of Farewell Legally for Medical Reasons Hope and Fear Moscow, Here’s Your New Pushkin The Hangover after Glory I Have the Honor to Inform Genius and Villainy Caucasus Crossing the Border Missing My Chains Selective Bibliography
Yuri Druzhnikov (1933-2008) was professor of Russian literature at the University of California-Davis. As a Moscow dissident, he was blacklisted in Russia for fifteen years. He served as vice-president of the International Pen Club, and his other works include Passport to Yesterday, Prisoner of Russia, and Angels on the Head of a Pin.
-Pushkin is the supreme manifestation and matrix of much of Russian
literature, especially of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In
this interesting, cogent, and informative study, Druzhnikov (Univ.
of California, Davis) sets out to shatter -the myth of Pushkin as a
patriot-poet-; he harbored a deep desire to travel to the West and
enjoy its forbidden fruits... An excellent title for collections
supporting studies of Russian literature at the upper-division
undergraduate level and above.- --V. D. Barooshian, Choice
"Pushkin is the supreme manifestation and matrix of much of Russian
literature, especially of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In
this interesting, cogent, and informative study, Druzhnikov (Univ.
of California, Davis) sets out to shatter "the myth of Pushkin as a
patriot-poet"; he harbored a deep desire to travel to the West and
enjoy its forbidden fruits... An excellent title for collections
supporting studies of Russian literature at the upper-division
undergraduate level and above." --V. D. Barooshian, Choice
"Pushkin is the supreme manifestation and matrix of much of Russian
literature, especially of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In
this interesting, cogent, and informative study, Druzhnikov (Univ.
of California, Davis) sets out to shatter "the myth of Pushkin as a
patriot-poet"; he harbored a deep desire to travel to the West and
enjoy its forbidden fruits... An excellent title for collections
supporting studies of Russian literature at the upper-division
undergraduate level and above." --V. D. Barooshian, Choice
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