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Bankrupt in all but talent
From: The Spectator
Date: 20020921
Author:Sumption, Jonathan
Bankrupt in all but talent PUSHKIN by T. J. Binyon HarperCollins, L30, pp. 688, ISBN 0002150840
Alexander Pushkin occupies the same place in the Russian canon as Shakespeare does in the English. He was a professional author, living by his writing, a new phenomenon in Russia. He stretched the possibilities of the Russian language at the moment when a literate mass readership was coming into existence to enjoy it. He brought universal themes to the insular literary traditions of his own country, and was the first Russian author to be widely read outside it. For an English readership, T. J. ...
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