Aleksandr Pushkin, Pikovaia dama [The Queen of Spades]

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1834

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

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Pushkin enjoys a world-wide reputation as the most famous Russian poet, but he was also a leading figure in dramatic writing and in the development of Russian prose – to say nothing of his “verse novel”,

Evgenii Onegin

[

Eugene Onegin

, 1833]. In the category of fiction, he is known for his historical novel

Kapitanskaia dochka

[

The Captain's Daughter

, 1836] and his story cycle

Povesti Belkina

[

The Tales of Belkin

, 1831]. However, his best, and most influential, work in the prose fiction mode is, by general consent and acclamation, his tale

Pikovaia dama

[

The Queen of Spades

, 1834], written during his famously productive “Boldino autumn” of 1833. Tightly condensed into some twenty-five pages,

The Queen of Spades

was hailed by Dostoevsky as “the epitome of the art of the…

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Citation: Cornwell, Neil. "Pikovaia dama". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 April 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11210, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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