An edition of Bottone di Puškin (1998)

Pushkin's button

1st English-language ed.

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August 9, 2024 | History
An edition of Bottone di Puškin (1998)

Pushkin's button

1st English-language ed.

Pushkin's Button is a narrative about the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837, when a young French officer in the Russian Army shot and killed Russia's greatest living artist. Ever since, Russian leaders, critics, and poets have advanced theories about the terrible deed, none of them wholly satisfactory.

Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studied the case more closely, and more imaginatively, than anyone before her; her account of the Pushkin "dilemma" is also a wonderfully astute, original assessment of the poet's literary and national importance.

Vitale has unearthed family secrets, diaries, courtroom records, and a cache of letters found in a Paris attic ten years ago; she shows us how a pawnbroker's slip and even a button missing from Pushkin's Kamerjunker uniform are significant details in the story. Her close examination of the record sparkles with Pushkin's own genial wit and brings to life the international yet very Russian world of St.

Petersburg in the 1830s, with its imperial halls, its political and literary gossip, and its beautiful women - notable among them Natalya Pushkin, the poet's wife. Vitale adds another level to the narrative with her absorbing references to her own archival detection work, work that enabled her to accomplish this double feat of literary interpretation and superb history.

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Language
English
Pages
355

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Pushkin's button
2000, University of Chicago Press
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Pushkin's button
2000, Fourth Estate
in English
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Pushkin's button
1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st English-language ed.
Cover of: Pushkin's button
Pushkin's button
1999, Fourth Estate
in English
Cover of: Pushkin's Button
Pushkin's Button
1999, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Pushkin's button
Pushkin's button
1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st English-language ed.
Cover of: Pushkin's Button
Pushkin's Button
1999, Zondervan
in English
Cover of: Pushkin's button
Pushkin's button
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Pushkin's Button

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-293) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.71/3, B
Library of Congress
PG3350.5.D4 V5813 1999, PG3350.5.D4V5813 199

The Physical Object

Pagination
355 p. ;
Number of pages
355

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24704112M
Internet Archive
pushkinsbutton00vita
ISBN 10
0374239355
LCCN
97039082
OCLC/WorldCat
37862695

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