Novel·les i contes

by Alexander Pushkin

Alexandr Serguèievitx Puixkin (1799-1837), poeta i narrador rus nascut a Moscou, és una de les grans figures de la literatura russa. Es donà a conèixer als cercles literaris d'oposició, que tingueren un paper destacat en la polèmica lingüística de l'època. Fou desterrat per causa dels seus poemes (1820) i més tard (1824) visqué confinat a Pskov, on la seva família tenia una propietat. En aquesta època escriví la tragèdia 'Boris Godunov' i, més tard, 'Ievgueni Oneguin'. Després de ser perdonat pel tsar Nicolau I, es traslladà a la cort el 1826, on no fou mai assimilat pels cercles aristocràtics. L'ambient hostil en què visqué el portà a batre's en duel amb un oficial francès, a conseqüència del qual morí a Sant Petersburg l'any 1837. En els darrers anys de la seva vida cultivà sobretot prosa: 'Els relats de Belkin' (1830), 'La filla del capità' (1836), etc., sense oblidar la poesia com 'El cavaller de bronze' (1837). Puixkin és considerat com el gran creador del rus literari modern. El volum que presentem inclou 'La dama de piques', 'La filla del capità' i tres narracions, totes elles traduïdes per Rudolf J. Slaby (1885-1957), famós catalanòfil txec que visqué dotze anys a Barcelona.

213 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1836

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

[Martí CV · Rating 3 out of 5]

De la mateixa manera que en el món físic no caben dos cossos en un mateix lloc alhora, tampoc en el món moral no pot haver-hi dues idees fixes a la vegada.

[Neus Urpí · Rating 4 out of 5]

Els adagis morals acostumen a ser aplicables, amb un encert sorprenent, quan l'home no té ja prou talent per a inventar res que el disculpi.