Aleksandr Pushkin, Dubrovsky

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1841

Places

Russia (Publication/ performance; Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-fictional prose

Resources

Pushkin worked on his unfinished historical novel Dubrovskii [Dubrovsky] between October 1832 and February 1833. Pushkin’s prose style is clear, clean and succinct; he himself wrote that “Precision and brevity are the most important qualities of prose. Prose demands thoughts and more thoughts – without thoughts, dazzling expressions serve no purpose.” Dubrovsky, however, is so very simply and concisely written that it is easy for the reader to lose sight of its fundamental seriousness. Like The Captain’s Daughter, it is an account of a seemingly inevitable conflict and a plea for the importance of reconciliation.

The Dubrovskys are in some respects modelled on Pushkin&…

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Dubrovsky". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 May 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38953, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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