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La Dame de pique (collector): suivi de Doubrovsky
La dame de pique est-elle cette femme ensorcelante qui, dans le Paris de Richelieu, gagne de façon mystérieuse une fortune perdue au jeu ? Est-elle cette figure maléfique, incarnation d'un destin contraire, qui précipite Hermann, jeune officier, dans la passion du jeu ? Est-elle encore, au soir de sa mort, cette dame blanche, funeste apparition, livrant à Hermann le secret des cartes pour mieux lui faire payer son crime ?Autant d'énigmes qui ont fait d'elle un personnage de légende, inspirant un opéra à Tchaïkovski, s'offrant André Gide et Prosper Mérimée pour traducteurs.
128 pages, Pocket Book
Published October 26, 2022
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About the author
Alexander Pushkin
3,084 books3,452 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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December 11, 2024
Ces deux récits sont un concentré d’injustice, de fatalité et de froideur, des thèmes si caractéristiques de la littérature russe.
Dans La Dame de Pique, Hermann m’a profondément marquée par son absence totale de remords après avoir provoqué la mort de la vieille femme. Sa froideur et son ambition dévorante m’ont choquée, surtout face à l’implacable ironie du destin qui le punit finalement.
Quant à Doubrovsky, c’est une histoire poignante d’injustice sociale et de vengeance. La fin, loin d’être traditionnelle, m’a particulièrement touchée par son amertume et son refus de tout dénouement heureux, renforçant l’impression d’impuissance face à un système corrompu.
Ces deux œuvres reflètent à la perfection les thématiques de la fatalité et de l’injustice qu’on retrouve souvent chez les auteurs russes. Pouchkine sait manier le drame et l’émotion de façon captivante. Un véritable plaisir de lecture que je recommande chaudement à tous les amateurs de classiques !
Dans La Dame de Pique, Hermann m’a profondément marquée par son absence totale de remords après avoir provoqué la mort de la vieille femme. Sa froideur et son ambition dévorante m’ont choquée, surtout face à l’implacable ironie du destin qui le punit finalement.
Quant à Doubrovsky, c’est une histoire poignante d’injustice sociale et de vengeance. La fin, loin d’être traditionnelle, m’a particulièrement touchée par son amertume et son refus de tout dénouement heureux, renforçant l’impression d’impuissance face à un système corrompu.
Ces deux œuvres reflètent à la perfection les thématiques de la fatalité et de l’injustice qu’on retrouve souvent chez les auteurs russes. Pouchkine sait manier le drame et l’émotion de façon captivante. Un véritable plaisir de lecture que je recommande chaudement à tous les amateurs de classiques !
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January 31, 2025
Premier livre de cette auteure, moi qui ai débuté la lecture avec des classiques, je trouve ce livre top. Au chapitre 5, j'avais deviné ce qui allait se passer, ce qui a fait sourire. Que dire de plus? Le classique restera toujours le classique. Pour ce qui est de ce roman, je le trouve tout bonnement génial.
June 29, 2024
Courtes voire très courtes nouvelles qui, si elles ne sont pas transcendantes, se laissent lire avec plaisir.
May 28, 2025
On poursuit sa lecture parce qu’il s’agit de classiques mais ça n’a vraiment aucun intérêt. Ça pourrait avoir été écrit par n’importe qui, n’importe où en Europe.
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