Thread: Literature Talk: Russian & Non -Discuss/Review/Q&As

This poem comes from another thread and was suggested by studyr for my book:

The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть) by: Aleksandr Pushkin

Widely considered to be Pushkin's most successful narrative poem

The Bronze Horseman (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can listen to the poem in Russian at: Bronze Horseman

You can read the poem in Russian here: http://www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/02poems/01poems/0795.htm?
start=0&length=all

You can read the poem in English here: The Bronze Horseman

Медный всадник!
What a marvelous combination of epic and comedy! It was my first experience of reading Pushkin's verse in Russian. Gave me some good laughs and an everlasting passion for Russian poetry. A guy told me once that there is not a single Russian who doesn't know at least a few lines of that poem by heart.
But still, I think Peter the Great was a bit too easily offended. "Ужо тебе" isn't really such a great insult for which to petrify a poor young man. I wonder what grievous curses a contemporary Evgeny would yell at the statue...

Originally Posted by rockzmom

This poem comes from another thread and was suggested by studyr for my book:

The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть) by: Aleksandr Pushkin


The Bronze Horseman (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can listen to the poem in Russian at: Bronze Horseman

You can read the poem in Russian here: http://www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/02poems/01poems/0795.htm?
start=0&length=all

You can read the poem in English here: The Bronze Horseman

You can also listen to the poem here: RussianDVD.com - Audio Stream - Читает Дмитрий Николаевич Журавлёв

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to...Mario Vargas Llosa!
Whoda thunk it?!

I had enjoyed his "The Feast of the Goat" and especially "Conversation in the Cathedral", and I've been reading "Death in the Andes" lately, and now he's (finally) received his well-deserved prize.

The best part of it is that the Academy has at last come to give the Prize to someone I know! [Or perhaps I should've twisted that around?]

Originally Posted by Misha Tal

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to...Mario Vargas Llosa!
Whoda thunk it?!

Wow! He's a great writer. For once they gave this prise to someone who deserved it.
I read a few books by him a long time ago, and I remember that I was very impressed by "The Green House".

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

For once they gave this prise to someone who deserved it.

yeah, Nobels are a joke; I can't believe anyone takes them seriously.