Cutting it short
John Bayley, 3 November 1983
Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction
by Paul Debreczeny, translated by Walter Arndt.
Stanford, 545 pp., $38.50, May 1983,0 8047 1142 9 Show More
by Paul Debreczeny, translated by Walter Arndt.
Stanford, 545 pp., $38.50, May 1983,
The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin’s Prose Fiction
by Paul Debreczeny.
Stanford, 386 pp., $32.50, May 1983,0 8047 1143 7 Show More
by Paul Debreczeny.
Stanford, 386 pp., $32.50, May 1983,
“... his admirable study – his ‘other Pushkin’ is the storyteller and novelist, not the poet – Paul Debreczeny quotes Pushkin’s comments on Shakespeare’s characterisation. They go hand in hand with inconclusiveness, and show why it is that though Shakespeare had to finish the play, his characters never do. They are not completed by their dramatic ... ”
