Alexander
Pushkin's Little Tragedies
The Poetics of Brevity
Edited by Svetlana Evdokimova
A Publication of the Wisconsin
Center for Pushkin Studies
General Editors: David M. Bethea and Alexander Dolinin
"A superb collection of essays,
which promises to be an indispensable source of information and
critical ideas for anyone researching, teaching, or studying
Pushkin."
—Paul Debreczeny, author of Social Functions of Literature:
Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture
Alexander Pushkin's four compact plays, later known as The
Little Tragedies, were written at the height of the author's
creative powers, and their influence on many Russian and Western
writers cannot be overestimated. Yet Western readers are far
more familiar with Pushkin's lyrics, narrative poems, and prose
than with his drama. The Little Tragedies have received
few translations or scholarly examinations. Setting out to redress
this and to reclaim a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, Evodokimova
and her distinguished contributors offer the first thorough critical
study of these plays. They examine the historical roots and connective
themes of the plays, offer close readings, and track the transformation
of the works into other genres.
This volume includes a significant new
translation by James Falen of the plays—The Covetous
Knight, Mozart and Salieri, The Stone Guest, and A Feast
in Time of Plague.
 Svetlana Evdokimova is associate professor of Slavic
languages and comparative literature at Brown University.
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November 2003
LC: 2003007694 PG
496 pp. 6 x 9
1 b/w photo
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