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Jan. 18th, 2011 07:49 pm6. Boris Godunov & Other Plays, tr. Falen
I liked the other plays but not Boris Godunov, which I also didn't like the first time I read it. It's readable, the historical events are interesting, but that's about it. The Little Tragedies are a bit better, and the other two pieces, "Scene from Faust" and "Rusalka" were better still. Pushkin's at his best representing his own - usually self-inflicted - miseries, however obliquely. And misers, oddly.
7. Gilgamesh, tr. Ferry
I liked this and didn't think I would; it starts out seeming just dumb and epical, but it goes somewhere, at least as reconstructed by Ferry. A number of very striking details. Heartening to realize people always had brains: implies they always will. Some of them.
I liked the other plays but not Boris Godunov, which I also didn't like the first time I read it. It's readable, the historical events are interesting, but that's about it. The Little Tragedies are a bit better, and the other two pieces, "Scene from Faust" and "Rusalka" were better still. Pushkin's at his best representing his own - usually self-inflicted - miseries, however obliquely. And misers, oddly.
7. Gilgamesh, tr. Ferry
I liked this and didn't think I would; it starts out seeming just dumb and epical, but it goes somewhere, at least as reconstructed by Ferry. A number of very striking details. Heartening to realize people always had brains: implies they always will. Some of them.
