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Book reviews: Pushkin: A man of many guises, all of them Russian
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20021013
Author:IAIN SPROAT
PUSHKIN
TJ Binyon
HarperCollins, GBP 30
IT IS difficult to explain the position held in Russian life today by Alexander Pushkin, who died in 1837. He is indeed venerated as Russia's greatest poet. But the response to Pushkin by Russians is more than that: it has in it something of the response to a hero. They are proud of him for more than being a literary genius. They identify with him as a possessor, and the greatest expresser, of the Russian soul. He permeates their thinking.
To us, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov are more familiar than Pushkin, but to the Russians, Pushkin is greater ...
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