Abstract
Writing some forty years later, Pushkin was to choose the same form in order to ‘‘answer’’ Radishchev. In the unpublished Journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg 1 he avails himself of the freedom implicit in the travel genre to quote large passages directly from the banned original.2 Although he did not agree with all of Radishchev’s ideas, Pushkin hoped, by disguising his work as an attack, at least to give his predecessor a hearing.3
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A valuable survey of the varying interpretations of Pushkin’s Journey in Russian criticism may be found in A. McConnell’s “Pushkin’s Literary Gamble,” American Slavic and East European Review (December, 1960), pp. 577–593. McConnell’s thesis is essentially the same as mine; but I shall cite new textual evidence to prove it.
A. S. Pushkin, Sobrante Sočinenij (Moscow: 1959), vol. VI, 378.
Ibid., p. 379.
Ibid., p. 384.
Pushkin’s criticism of Radishchev’s literary style can be taken at face value.
Pushkin, vi, p. 392.
Ibid., p. 507.
Ibid., p. 395.
Ibid., p. 406.
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Wilson, R.K. (1973). Pushkin’s Journey from Moscow to Petersburg. In: The Literary Travelogue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1997-2_7
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