Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Esta edición de las Narraciones completas, muchas de ellas inéditas en español, ofrece asimismo las claves del peculiar romanticismo pushkiniano, rápido, templado y estricto. Sus héroes y heroínas -nobles bandoleros, husares y cosacos, dandis de Petersburgo, princesas patriotas y señoritas novelescas- se ven envueltos en lances extraordinarios y graciles mascaradas, pero son observados por un narrador que, ademas de dominar con habilidad extrema los recursos de la trama, es capaz de verla al trasluz, de contemplar con humor tanto lo romantico como la decepcion de lo romantico. Y, como dice Amaya Lacasa en su Introduccion al volumen (que tan excelentemente ha traducido, con Clara Janes en los fragmentos en verso), toda la futura riqueza de la literatura rusa esta contenida en el como en un embrion.

"Eugenio Oneguin", novela en verso, es una de las obras fundamentales de Pushkin y una de las novelas rusas más relevantes del siglo XIX. El personaje de Oneguin encierra una dualidad en la concepción del mundo. Aunque hostil al "gran mundo", esta a la vez inscrito e inmerso en el. Su individualismo tendente al escepticismo se convierte en la indiferencia de quien no tiene ningun objetivo ante la vida.

In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way.The basis for Glinka''s famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin''s second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious retelling of Russian folklore, full of humour and irony.________''He managed what is almost unmanageable: to offer parody and enchantment at the same time'' Colm Toibin_

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation by Stanley Mitchell conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.

Written in the autumn of 1830 and sometimes referred to as "the little parodies," the five stories in this collection involve a number of the key contemporary themes in European literature, including the Byronic hero, the Gothic novel, and the tale of the supernatural. Yet each sparkling vignette adds an unexpected twist to these familiar literary themes, and in doing so fruitful new avenues for exploration are suggested. These tales quickly proved remarkably influential, and Russia''s future literature simply would not have been the same without them.

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the worlds greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermanns quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast.

El cuento del gallo de oro tiene su origen en una leyenda folclórica rusa. Comienza la historia con el regalo de un gallo ofrecido por un mago al rey Zadón, gallo que le proporcionará unos servicios impagables y alguna que otra sorpresa. Esta fabula habla de la importancia de la palabra dada y de las consecuencias de los caprichos de los hombres. Esta edicion tiene, ademas, gran belleza visual porque cuenta con los preciosos dibujos del gran ilustrador ruso Ivan Bilibin. Bilibin fue uno de los ilustradores mas populares de Rusia en el siglo XX. Dibujaba sobre todo el folclore y la cultura tradicional rusos. Su estilo estuvo influido por movimientos como el Orientalismo y el Art Nouveau. Es un estilo muy detallista y en su obra hay cuadros preciosos de la escultura y el paisaje rusos, de la vida campesina, de los palacios zaristas y la arquitectura de madera

Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olgas fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegins hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been.

From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.

The archetypal Romantic killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37 Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature Though famous as a poet he was equally at home in prose and this volume includes all his short fiction as well as unfinished sketches and fragments Here of course are his masterpieces The Queen of Spades Pushkin s ironic take on both the supernatural and the society tale the terse deadpan Tales of Belkin often humorous yet imbued with deep understanding of human nature and his unsurpassable novella The Captain s Daughter which informed by his meticulous research into the Pugachev Rebellion against Catherine the Great is a perfect combination of folk epic historical narrative and romance Other works include the richly comic A History of the Village of Goriukhino the imaginative historical fiction The Moor of Peter the Great based on the life of the author s own great grandfather Pushkin was particularly proud of his African ancestry and Journey to Arzrum the fascinating autobiographical account of his unauthorized and greatly displeasing to the Tsar travels in the Caucasus at the time of the 1828 9 Russo Turkish war

A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess a secret he believes will win him a fortune

Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus "An Amateur Peasant Girl," "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Postmaster," and "The Coffin-Maker -- all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest poets and most influential writers.