The 3 best books by the extraordinary Aleksandr Pushkin

1799 - 1837… By simple chronology, Aleksandr Pushkin acquires that role of father of the great Russian literature that later came into the hands of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy o Chekhov, that narrative triumvirate of universal letters. Because, despite the thematic disparity and the change of approach typical of the times of each narrator, the figure of Pushkin supposed food and inspiration, a critical point of view oriented in his pen towards a romanticism that was becoming more crude, until that realism crude adapted to the imaginary of each of the three later greats.

From her gentle aristocratic cradle, Pushkin However, he ended up practicing as a critical narrator, always from that latent romantic point always in the author thanks to his refined education and his first poetic orientation.

However Romanticism can also be a powerful ideological tool that invades readers from their emotions. And well, that possible intention was interpreted by the censors of the Tsar, who always had him in their sights as the focus of possible uprisings.

Being separated from the social and political nerve centers, without being able to take drastic measures against him due to his aristocratic origins, Pushkin was orienting his narrative production towards a powerful realism dotted with his undeniable admiration for that kind of magical manners, full of myths and legends, typical of the romantic of training that he always was.

Top 3 recommended books by Aleksandr Pushkin

The captain's daughter

The historical novel may have some defects that end up turning it into a mere local entertainment book. Because we do not always have to be interested in coming from a distant place.

In fact, descriptions of a foreign world can have the ultimate effect of reading abandonment. Hence, the mastery of a Pushkin capable of delving into the particularities of this story from the first page, stands out greatly.

The romantic love of Piotr and María, the well-known daughter of the captain, moves us through a novel of constant epic adventures, battles and duels in a magical Orenburg at times, immersed in a fog where the convulsive moments of the Purgachov rebellion and a particular Pushkin imaginary in which romantic leanings and his new narrative character coexist towards critical realism with the circumstances of so many Russians renegade due to their condition in a pyramid increasingly seen as the unjust creation that would lead to later revolutions.

Love ends up triumphing in the novel, but perhaps as an excuse to propose a narrative knot that goes much further and that confronts passions and idealism with power and old customs. Possibly it is an initiatory novel in that necessary transition between creative currents, in this case from the glorifying romanticism of individuality to the collective idealism of defense of the human being.

The captain's daughter

Eugene Onegin

In that spirit subjected to the dichotomy between romanticism and realism, Pushkin presented a fascinating lyrical compendium in a novel that advances at the stroke of a sonnet, like a Greek epic song transmuted into the history of more tangible gods, of individuals born from that kind of romantic mysticism. towards their improvement as entirely social individuals.

Onegin appears as an idle type of the Russian upper class of the time. In principle Onegin represents us the despicable idler, but nevertheless we gradually discover in him the disenchanted of the forms, being liberated and given to a free will in the face of the chains of the most prosaic reality.

His infatuation with Tatiana ends up serving the cause of female liberation, since the figure of a girl capable of marking her love plans would be frankly shocking.

A certain light touch, necessary for the lyrical structure and deliberately fantastic details that invite a symbolic visualization of the story end up drawing one of those different, groundbreaking novels that you still consider today as an essential piece in any creative exploration process.

Eugene Onegin

Boris godunov

Not everything is a novel ... In Pushkin's case necessarily. Because this play acquires the brilliance of the dramaturgy conceived as the scenery of life. A work written from the intensity of the author convinced that only the rawness of the most intense realism can achieve the value of a transcendent work on the stage.

Only his critical nature, his vision against the ideology and morality of his time was so evident that Pushkin kept it hidden, waiting for the moment when his dramatic vision absorbed his manifest conscientious intention.

Of course, that moment would correspond to a more advanced future that would not correspond to him, so he finally presented her in front of everything and everyone a few years before his death.

Like a Shakespeare of the East, determined to show the most intense concerns of the Russian people, with this tragedy around old conflicts of power we approach the thriving idisyncrasy of one of the peoples most always directed to the revolution in the face of the constant abuses of can.

Boris godunov
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