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english masthead english masthead  Spring 2007  E 322 • Pushkin
Unique Days Time Location Instructor 34380 TTh 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
PAR 103  Course Description  Discover why the Russians call
Pushkin their greatest writer. Why Dostoevsky's last statement
was his "Pushkin speech." Why the Russian symbolist Alexander
Blok paid tribute to Pushkin's "secret freedom" and twentieth-
century tragic muse Anna Akhmatova wondered, "How did he know it
all already?" Why Vladimir Nabokov devoted years of his life to
translating and annotating Pushkin's novel in verse, Eugene
Onegin. Find out why the Pushkin monument in Moscow is still
people's number one meeting spot. As an extra bonus, learn about
Pushkin's special relationship to English literature: Byron,
Shakespeare and Scott. We will see that Amadeus works off the
same material as Pushkin's brilliant "Mozart and Salieri."
Opera and film versions of Pushkin works will be included. All
readings will be in Eng