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This edition contains a Dutch translation of Tales of Belkin and Queen of Spades.
In een uitmuntende vertaling van Aleida G. Schot zijn in deze pocketuitgave bijeengebracht Schoppenvrouw , een novelle die tot Poesjkins beste prozawerk wordt gerekend, en De verhalen van wijlen Iwan Petrowitsj Bjelkin (Het schot ~ De sneeuwstorm ~ De doodkistenmaker ~ De stationhouder ~ Het boerenfreuletje). Deze beroemde verhalen schreeft Poesjkin waarschijnlijk als experiment zonder er dadelijk zijn eigen naam aan te willen verbinden...
Alexander Poesjkin, Ruslands grootste dichter, zou met zijn bondig, weloverwogen proza stellig ook een van de belangrijkste Russische schrijvers zijn geworden als hij niet jong bij een duel het leven had verloren.
In een uitmuntende vertaling van Aleida G. Schot zijn in deze pocketuitgave bijeengebracht Schoppenvrouw , een novelle die tot Poesjkins beste prozawerk wordt gerekend, en De verhalen van wijlen Iwan Petrowitsj Bjelkin (Het schot ~ De sneeuwstorm ~ De doodkistenmaker ~ De stationhouder ~ Het boerenfreuletje). Deze beroemde verhalen schreeft Poesjkin waarschijnlijk als experiment zonder er dadelijk zijn eigen naam aan te willen verbinden...
Alexander Poesjkin, Ruslands grootste dichter, zou met zijn bondig, weloverwogen proza stellig ook een van de belangrijkste Russische schrijvers zijn geworden als hij niet jong bij een duel het leven had verloren.
- GenresRussiaShort Stories
189 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
About the author
Alexander Pushkin
2,916 books3,628 followersWorks of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel
Eugene Onegin
(1831), the play
Boris Godunov
(1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.
Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society. In 1837, while falling into ever greater debt amidst rumors that his wife started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.
Because of his liberal political views and influence on generations of Russian rebels, Pushkin was portrayed by Bolsheviks as an opponent to bourgeois literature and culture and a predecessor of Soviet literature and poetry. Tsarskoe Selo was renamed after him.
See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.
Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society. In 1837, while falling into ever greater debt amidst rumors that his wife started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.
Because of his liberal political views and influence on generations of Russian rebels, Pushkin was portrayed by Bolsheviks as an opponent to bourgeois literature and culture and a predecessor of Soviet literature and poetry. Tsarskoe Selo was renamed after him.
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Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
September 2, 2026
Always nice to tick off a big'un from your list and find they're accessible and fun to read. This 200 page collection has "The Belkin Tales" (itself a short story collection) and novella "The Queen of Spades". They all deal with swindlers, romantic misunderstandings, some of them flirt a little with the paranormal in a Christmas Carol type way, ... all good fun!
The narrator Belkin in the first book is quite a funny comedic persona, saying shit like "okay readers you know how this ends, I won't insult you". He is not a character in any of the stories! It's just Pushkin doing metacommentary! In 1820whatever!
Also a very rare instance of a book older than the 20th century making me laugh out loud (intentionally? let's be charitable and say yes).
"The Anglomane stood criticism as badly as our own journalists do. He raged, and called his calumniator a bear and a provincialist."
lol, lmao
The narrator Belkin in the first book is quite a funny comedic persona, saying shit like "okay readers you know how this ends, I won't insult you". He is not a character in any of the stories! It's just Pushkin doing metacommentary! In 1820whatever!
Also a very rare instance of a book older than the 20th century making me laugh out loud (intentionally? let's be charitable and say yes).
"The Anglomane stood criticism as badly as our own journalists do. He raged, and called his calumniator a bear and a provincialist."
lol, lmao
October 24, 2021
Dat zijn nog eens verhalen! Ik wilde gillen toen ik het einde van Schoppenvrouw las, maar ik zat in de trein dus dat ging niet.
April 10, 2013
Read this when I was only 16. Not every story is interesting, but this volume contains some classics! It was the starting of my "Russian period".
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