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Prose
"Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter" by Irina Reyfman in The Slavic and East European Journal , Vol. 38, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994) p. 463-478 (JSTOR URL)
This article discusses the implications of Pushkin's use of the name 'Trediakovsky' in "The Captain's Daughter".
"Choosing the Right Card: Madness, Gambling, and the Imagination in Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades"" by Gary Rosenshield in PMLA , Vol. 109, No. 5 (Oct., 1994), p. 995-1008 (JSTOR URL)
As one might imagine, this article is a treatment of Pushkin's portrayal of madness in "The Queen of Spades".
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Remembrance
by Aleksandr Pushkin
When the loud day for men who sow and reap
Grows still, and on the silence of the town
The unsubstantial veils of night and sleep,
The meed of the day's labour, settle down,
Then for me in the stillness of the night
The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course,
And in the idle darkness comes the bite
Of all the burning serpents of remorse;
Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities
Are swarming in my over-burdened soul,
And Memory before my wakeful eyes
With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll.
Then, as with loathing I peruse the years,
I tremble, and I curse my natal day,
Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears,
But cannot wash the woeful script away.
--Translated by Maurice Baring
From "World Poetry," edited by Katharine Washburn, John S. Major and Clifton Fadiman (W.W. Norton: 1,338 pp.) |
