Пир во время чумы

by Alexander Pushkin

In mezzo alla pestilenza che sta imperversando la città c'è un gruppo di uomini e donne che banchettano. E' un tentativo di nascondersi dall'orrore della realtà o un atto di coraggio?
"Il banchetto in tempo di peste", facente parte del ciclo "Piccole tragedie", è una delle opere più sorprendenti e contradittorie del grande poeta russo. Leggetela e scoprirete perché...

Genres: Classics, Russia, Poetry, Russian Literature, Fiction

13 pages, Kindle Edition

About the author

Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.

See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin

People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.

Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.

Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society. In 1837, while falling into ever greater debt amidst rumors that his wife started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.

Because of his liberal political views and influence on generations of Russian rebels, Pushkin was portrayed by Bolsheviks as an opponent to bourgeois literature and culture and a predecessor of Soviet literature and poetry. Tsarskoe Selo was renamed after him.

Reviews

[Medina Babayeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main idea of ​​this short poem is the desire not to judge other people by their external actions. We do not know what is going on in the depths of the soul of another person. Sometimes deep inner suffering leads to strange and paradoxical behavior. And no matter how much we ourselves seem righteous, we cannot demand from other people to be equal to ourselves. Much depends on upbringing.
All people are different, they react differently to any events happening around. Someone is trying, clenching his teeth, to overcome the situation, someone is trying to at least prove to himself that the current situation has no power over him, someone is humbled. It has always been this way, and it will always be so.

[NV⸙⚔⚆⚆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.50 (disappointed)

1. Emotional impact | 3.00 (average)

2. Thought-provoking | 2.50 (disappointed)

3. Characters | 2.50 (disappointed)

4. Plot | 2.50 (disappointed)

5. World building | 3.00 (average)

6. Prose | 3.50 (good)

[Anastasia · Rating 2 out of 5]

*Read for class.

[Pavel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ничего особенного из себя стихи не представляют. И сюжет не захватывает и идей никаких не высказано.