Puskin Today

Since the nineteenth century, the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin has been a cultural myth, a figure absolutely central to Russian culture, even to "Russianness" itself. In this volume distinguished American Slavists address Pushkin’s writings from a multiplicity of contemporary literary perspectives and investigate some of the most puzzling issues in the poet’s life and work.

DAVID M. BETHEA is Vilas Research Professor of and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Khodasevich: His Life and Art; The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction; and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile.