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Books: `The Jesus Christ of our poetry' Pushkin's life was short but full of drama. His biography should be the same, argues Ian Thomson

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20020922
Author:Ian Thomson

Pushkin: A Biography

By TJ Binyon

HARPERCOLLINS pounds 30

Alexander Pushkin, Russia's first great writer, is a quasi-divine figure for Russians and "the Jesus Christ of our Poetry", as a contemporary enthused. His glittering verse epic of 1823-31, Eugene Onegin, is the most hallowed work in the nation's literature. Vladimir Nabokov flatly declared: "To be Russian means to love Pushkin." Nabokov devoted as much time to his English translation of Eugene Onegin as to writing Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada together.

TJ Binyon's new biography is really too long. Over 700 pages are devoted to the ...

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