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<p>In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed <em>Eugene Onegin, </em>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&rsquo;s work while aligning it with today&rsquo;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.</p> <p>The four "little tragedies" - <em>Mozart and Salieri,&nbsp;</em><em>The Miserly Knight,&nbsp;</em><em>The Stone Guest,&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em>A Feast During the Plague - </em>are extremely compressed dialogues, each dealing with a dominant protagonist whose central internal conflict dete

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Author

Pushkin, Alexander

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611730635

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.34 / 5 (1,857 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14