Radio: When Pushkin comes to shove

The Independent - London | June 6, 1999| | Copyright

It is said that it is impossible to capture the feel and spirit of Pushkin's poetry in English, that you have to read him in the original to understand the extraordinary grip he has on the Russian imagination. That's fine - for his life was extraordinary enough. Hence Pushkin Night on Radio 3 last Thursday.

The point about Pushkin, as the evening's host, Gerard McBurney, put it, is that he is to the Russians what Shakespeare is to us, or Goethe to the Germans: a touchstone and a kind of national soul, a poet whose phrases are used in everyday life by people who haven't necessarily read ...

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