Annotated Class 27/11

I wanted to pass on a few links following our discussion in today’s class.
The first is to a blog post from last year regarding Pushkin’s mythic status in the Russian cannon.  Specifically, Pushkin’s more sexually-charged poetry was suppressed in the Soviet Union in order to maintain his saint-like status.  The link can be found here.
There’s [...]

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Gypsies

Pushkin’s “Цыганы”/”gypsies”, with the original Russian and a parallel English translation. A great way to read it…

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Kitschy ‘Я вас любил’

Here’s the extremely kitschy balalaika
orchestra arrangement of Sheremetiev’s
setting of “Я Вас любил” – the singer is Boris
Shtokolov…

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Руслан и Людмила

O verture to Glinka’s ground-breaking
opera setting of Pushkin’s mock-folk tale,
“Руслан и Людмила”

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More on Pushkin’s Africa Connection

… a nice concise article from a Purdue professor…

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Tuesday Assignment

Here are the two reading assignments for Tuesday: also make sure to help out with our PROROK translation!
Also remember to bring a copy of these poems along with you to class on Tuesday with all of your mark-ups on them.
Now after our class on Pushkin and The Myth Of Pushkin, it might be an opportune [...]

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Pushkin “I loved you”

This is the translation of Pushkin’s “I loved you”.
1)This is one of the versions I found (and it’s nearly how I translated it myself, so I’ll go with it;
( I got this from:  http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/alphabetical.html . There you can read many,many Russian poems in Russian and in English, AND listen to them! )
I loved you [...]

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For Thursday

Hey all: today we’re going over two Pushkin poems.
For tomorrow we’re starting work on Pushkin’s “Gypsies”.  You should already have found and read the text in English.
A Russian version is available here.
We’ll have a total of three classes on the piece.

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Assignment for Wednesday, Nov. 12

The reading assignment for tomorrow, Tues., Nov. 11 is up on the blog here.
For Wednesday’s discussion class, we are reading two poems by Pushkin, “Ia vas liubil” and “Prorok”
Here is the first:
А.С. Пушкин
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Я вас любил: любовь еще, быть может,
В душе моей угасла не [...]

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The Place of Pushkin in Russian Culture

This is one of Repin’s most famous paintings and also marks one of the biggest moments in Russian cultural history: the elderly poet Derzhavin witnesses the first public performace by the young poet, Aleksandr Pushkin.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin during the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum exam on January 8th, 1815. Oil on [...]

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