Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature

by Alexander Burry

The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in 1830, TheStone Guest is now recognized, with other Pushkin masterpieces, as part of the Russian literary canon. Alexander Burry traces the influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299342107
• ISBN13: 9780299342104
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"