The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems
By Unknown Author.
Description
Alexander Pushkin (1799 1837), Russia s greatest writer, wrote much more than his novel in verse Eugene Onegin. In this selection of five of his finest narrative poems, all his essential qualities are on display his ironic poise, his stylistic variety, his confounding of expectations, his creation of poetry out of everyday language. The Gypsies is modern Russian literature s first masterpiece. Telling the anti-Romantic tale of an effete city-dweller whose search for unspoiled values among a band of gypsies ends in tragedy, it is the major but unacknowledged source for Bizet s Carmen. In The...
ISBN(s)
1567922724, 9781567922721
