{"product_id":"little-tragedies","title":"Little Tragedies","description":"In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed \u003ci\u003eEugene Onegin, \u003c\/i\u003ecomposed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the “little tragedies.” The “little tragedies” stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature, yet they were last translated into English a quarter-century ago and have in recent years been out of print entirely. In this outstanding new translation, Nancy K. Anderson preserves the cadence and intensity of Pushkin’s work while aligning it with today’s poetic practices and freer approach to metrics. In addition she provides critical essays examining each play in depth, a discussion of her approach to translating the plays, and a consideration of the genre of these dramatic pieces and their performability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four “little tragedies”—\u003ci\u003eMozart and Salieri, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Miserly Knight, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Guest, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Feast During the Plague—\u003c\/i\u003eare extremely compressed dialogues, each dealing with a dominant protagonist whose central internal conflict determines both the plot and structure of the play. Pushkin focuses on human passions and the interplay between free will and fate: though each protagonist could avoid self-ruin, instead he freely chooses it.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54218937401688,"sku":"9780300080278","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300080278__67653ed25c22f.jpg?v=1741157826","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/little-tragedies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}