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True, Peter. There used to be a joke among Russians that if you didn't die when you were 37, then you were not a genius... Elina On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote: > Just playing around here a bit, reading up on Pushkin...turns out he died > at > 37, same as LSV. Here's part of the Wikipedia entry that treats his work in > translation. > > Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The > Bronze > Horseman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronze_Horseman_(poem)> and > the > drama The Stone Guest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Guest> , a > tale of the fall of Don Juan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan> . His > poetic short drama "Mozart and Salieri" was the inspiration for Peter > Shaffer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer> 's Amadeus > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus> . Pushkin himself preferred his > verse > novel Eugene Onegin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin> , which > he > wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great > Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone > and focus. "Onegin" is a work of such complexity that, while only about a > hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov> needed two full volumes > of > material to fully render its meaning in English. Because of this difficulty > in translation, Pushkin's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. > Even so, Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers like Henry James > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James> . > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin#cite_note-Leary-16> [17] > > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > -- I have on my table a violin string. It is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it's not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do - to produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten it until it is taut. Only then is it free to be a violin string. -Sir Rabindranath Tagore __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca