Pushkin's Button
プーシキン最期の四か月と決闘の真相を、書簡・日記・裁判資料を織り合わせて再構成する伝記的ノンフィクション。文書の断片をつなぎ、詩人の死がロシア文化史に残した意味を掘り下げる。
作品情報
プーシキンの死へ至る秘密を、資料の断片から組み立てる。
セレーナ・ヴィターレは、プーシキンの死をめぐる書簡、日記、裁判記録、証言をたどりながら、詩人の最期をめぐる物語を精密に組み立てる。伝記的でありながら推理小説のような推進力を持つ一冊。
レビュー要約
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文書資料を積み上げる構成が巧みで、プーシキン最期の日々をめぐる再構成がきわめて鮮やかだと評価されている。伝記でありながら、歴史の緊張感をそのまま読むような手触りがある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of Chicago Pr
- 発売日
- 2000-05-15
- ページ数
- 355ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780226857718
- ISBN-10
- 0226857719
- 価格
- 10380 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Historical
Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case more closely, and more imaginatively, than anyone before her. Her brilliant detective work unearths fascinating, revealing details, including a button missing from Pushkin's Kamerjunker uniform. "Pushkin's Button will keep all constituencies of reader fastened to their seats, as they watch Petersburg's lofty denizens leave no moment of the hurtling Pushkin scandal unrecorded or not speculated on."--Monika Greenleaf, Los Angeles Times "[A] deliciously entertaining whydunit, a book in which every page seduces with a riddle. . . . Vivacious, seductive, original."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "A delightful combination of retrograde pleasures (court balls, the demise of a doomed genius) and primary sources. . . . Illuminating."--Richard Lamb, New York Times Book Review "A book almost impossible to put down."--George Steiner, New Yorker
Serena Vitale is a professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Pavia, Italy.
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Wonderfully written. Just read it.
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Arrived way ahead of promised time. Wonderful.
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Really good background setting the scene, poor old Pushkin what a dreadful thing to happen and so unfair as he was quite right to defend his honor,
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Delivery was on time but quality of book disappointing with both front and back cover being badly creased. Will be returning purchase