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Binyon, T. J. Pushkin.(Book Review)
Oct. 2003. 720p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (1-4000-4110-4). 891.71.
Nearly deified by Dostoevsky as Russia's literary messiah, Pushkin reclaims his mortality in this deeply humanizing biography. Oxford lecturer Binyon focuses his formidable scholarship not on Pushkin's luminous poetry but rather on his turbulent life. Indeed, readers will marvel that a creative titan could so frequently embarrass himself through dissolute behavior and bad judgment. Binyon particularly details the tangled amorous path that led Pushkin into marriage with a high-spirited beauty who mismanaged their household into ...
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