A Very Athletic Person
T.J. Binyon, 26 May 1994
Strolls with Pushkin
by Abram Tertz, translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski.
Yale, 175 pp., £17.95, February 1994,0 300 05279 0 Show More
by Abram Tertz, translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski.
Yale, 175 pp., £17.95, February 1994,
“... of 1828, he writes of ‘Madame Kern, whom with God’s help I [will fuck] in a day or two’. Slava Yastremski is even more straitlaced: in his note on Anna Kern he states that they only met twice – in 1819 and 1825. Apart from the meeting Pushkin adumbrates in his letter, they continued to be acquainted throughout the 1830s.) But the discrepancy ... ”
