{"product_id":"peter-the-greats-african-experiments-in-prose-paperback","title":"Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Pushkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBoris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexander Pushkin, Russia's foundational writer, was constantly experimenting with new genres, and this fresh selection ushers readers into his creative laboratory. Politics and history weighed heavily on Pushkin's imagination, and in \"Peter the Great's African\" he depicts the Tsar through the eyes of one of his closest confidantes, Ibrahim, a former slave, modeled on Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather. At once outsider and insider, Ibrahim offers a sympathetic yet questioning view of Peter's attempt to integrate his vast, archaic empire into Europe. In the witty \"History of the Village of Goriukhino\" Pushkin employs parody and self-parody to explore problems of writing history, while \"Dubrovsky\" is both a gripping adventure story and a vivid picture of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth century, with its class conflicts ready to boil over in violence. \"The Egyptian Nights,\" an effervescent mixture of prose and poetry, reflects on the nature of artistic inspiration and the problem of the poet's place in a rapidly changing and ever more commercialized society.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Pushkin\u003c\/b\u003e (1799-1837) is considered Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is available from NYRB Classics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e has translated many NYRB Classics, including Vasily Grossman's \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Andrey Platonov's \u003ci\u003eSoul \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Foundation Pit\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent translations include Leo Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eLives and Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e and Andrey Kurkov's \u003ci\u003eGrey Bees\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a translator of Maxim Osipov's \u003ci\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and Lev Ozerov's \u003ci\u003ePortraits Without Frames\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by NYRB Classics.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.07 x 5.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395444261042,"sku":"9781681375991","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fade4b4e8c730badda51226fcbe6acac.webp?v=1777990203","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/peter-the-greats-african-experiments-in-prose-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}