Le Coup de pistolet et autres récits de feu Ivan Pétrovitch Bielkine

by Alexander Pushkin

Militaire de carrière au tempérament fantasque, Silvio semble n'avoir qu'une passion, le tir au pistolet : "Les murs de sa chambre, criblés de trous de balles, ressemblaient à des rayons de ruche. Il était devenu d'une adresse incroyable et, s'il s'était proposé d'abattre un fruit posé sur une casquette, aucun de nous n'eût craint d'y risquer sa tête." Pourquoi, alors, subir l'affront public d'un autre officier sans réagir ? Un lourd secret l'empêcherait-il de laver en duel son honneur bafoué ? Ces trois nouvelles à la prose élégante et limpide nous font tour à tour frémir, sourire et éclater de rire.

Genres: Classics

96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published May 27, 2014

About the author

Works 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.

Reviews

[Lulilalu · Rating 3 out of 5]

La nouvelle sur le marchand de cercueil était stylée, Poe take some notes

[Sacha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Très bon livre. Chacune des histoires sont biens, j'ai surtout aimé ''le coup de pistolet'' et ''le marchand de cercueils''.

[Katarina ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

De très belles histoires intéressantes mais une préférence pour "Le marchand de cercueils"

[Steph · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.9

[Ege · Rating 5 out of 5]

génial

[Alldatjazz Jazzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

recueil de nouvelles dont « La demoiselle paysanne » avec Alexei et Liza qu’on peut assimiler au côté un peu parodique de Roméo et Juliette . Jamais déçue des auteurs russes en général .

[Lowsleeperr :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Génial. Juste Génial.

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

le coup de pistolet 5/5 coup de coeur

le marchand de cercueils 3,5/5 love the plot twist

la demoiselle-paysanne 3,5/5

[EU · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trois nouvelles assez différentes mais qui illustrent chacune à leur manière la vivacité de l’écriture de Pouchkine. Une lecture très agréable.