Many thanks to Terry Teachout for the article on Syracuse Stage’s video production of the stage play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. As Teachout notes, Syracuse Stage’s revival of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” directed by Robert Hupp, is a thrilling staging of one of the best English-language plays of the 20th century, and it comes across online […]
Tag: Alexander Pushkin
It’s been a few years since I read Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin but I saw an article today that has me wanting to revisit it again soon. This may be nothing new to many, but I wanted to pass it on. Onegin’s Tatiana Was Only Thirteen? points out the references to Tatiana’s maid’s age in reference […]
I finished Alexander Pushkin’s The Little Tragedies, an e-book translated by Alan Shaw. The pieces included are “The Miserly Knight”, “Mozart and Salieri”, “The Stone Guest”, and “Feast During the Plague”. I have posted on “Mozart and Salieri” earlier: Pushkin does a wonderful job of embodying two disparate views of art in his characters. Salieri […]
I have mentioned Alan Shaw a few times in relation to Alexander Pushkin and will do so again. His translation of The Little Tragedies is now available as an e-book. He graciously sent me a copy and I’m enjoying it a lot. Contents include “The Miserly Knight”, “Mozart and Salieri”, “The Stone Guest”, and “Feast […]
Last month I linked to Pushkin’s Scene from Faust translated by Alan Shaw. He was kind enough to send me a link to his YouTube page that has From the 1979 TV film, Malenkie tragedii (Little Tragedies–Mozart and Salieri). dir. Mikhail Shveitser. Salieri: Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Mozart: Valery Zolotukhin. Subtitles adapted from A. Shaw’s translation of […]
the ache/toská: No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a […]
The Duel between Onegin and Lensky (1901) by Ilya Repin the ache/toská: No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a […]
Ball at Larins by Alexei Steipanovitch Stepanov (1911)Picture source Whatever in this rough confectionyou sought – tumultuous recolleciton,a rest from the toil and all its aches,or just grammatical mistakes,a vivid brush, a witty rattle – God grant that from this little bookfor heart’s delight, or fun, you took,for dreams, or journalistic battle,God grant you took […]
Listen to Pushkin’s poem in the original Russian: I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet To die down thoroughly within my soul; But let it not dismay you any longer; I have no wish to cause you any sorrow. I loved you wordlessly, without a hope, By shyness tortured, or by jealousy. I […]
I love it when many things come together unexpectedly and in ways you could never imagine. After posting on Merrill Moore and his poem “No Envy, John Carter” last week, what do I come across today? The recently released James Agee: Selected Poems (American Poets Project), within it the incomplete satire John Carter. But to make […]