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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20031230
Author:Timothy C. Westphalen

Timothy C. Westphalen
The Moscow Times (Russia)
12-30-2003
"Pushkin: A Biography." By T.J. Binyon. Knopf. 727 pages. $35.
The bicentennial of Alexander Pushkin's birth 3 1/2 years ago brought
a torrent of books, magazines, journals, television shows, countdowns,
banners and various other forms of media hype. On the cusp of the 21st
century, Pushkiniana garnered the kind of profit that the poet himself
had sought in vain in the 19th. Yet this belated commercial viability threatened
to obscure, if not wash away, the very reason for the celebration: Pushkin's
work itself. What became clear -- what had ...

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