Summary
Mihail Vizelj: Pushkin in Quarantine: Chronicle of Self-Isolation in 1830
Translated by Ivo Alebić
Book Pushkin in Quarantine – Chronicle of Self-Isolation in 1830. years by the Russian author Mihail Vizelj is a unique combination of scientific-literary and journalistic analysis that gives an interesting insight into the work of one of the most important Russian writers, from a completely new angle: through Pushkin's letters that he wrote to different recipients (from Natalija Gončarova to fellow writers, literary critics or editors) during the so-called Boldin autumns (during this period he managed to finish several of his most important literary works - from Eugene Onegin and Little Tragedies to Bielkin's Tales and a series of poems). (...) It is a text that, on the concrete and specific example of A.S. Pushkin's autobiographical texts, deals with the broad and complex issue of the relationship between literature and reality, i.e. literature and extra-literary reality, whereby M. Vizelj reads Pushkin's Boldinska jesen, which he spent in quarantine due to the cholera epidemic, in analogy with the recent state of the global pandemic. In other words, by carefully reading Pushkin's letters, the book provides answers to some contemporary questions: what to do in times of global crisis; how forced isolation affects creativity; how to deal with isolation and information vacuum and the like.
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