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Pushkin's Button

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19991001
Author:Anonymous

Pushkin's Button, by Serena Vitale.

The story of the untimely death of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, has been told many times. Enraged by the suggestion that his wife was carrying on an affair with a French officer, Pushkin challenged him to a duel that resulted in the poet's death. The search for meaning in this tragedy has been the focus of a long series of investigations. There is thus little that is new for Serena Vitale to uncover in this account. But she does bring to the story a remarkable sense for the dramatic, and for the telling detail. In fact, the title, Pushkin's ...

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