Bobbery
James Wood: Pushkin’s Leave-Taking, 20 February 2003
Pushkin: A Biography
by T.J. Binyon.
HarperCollins, 731 pp., £30, September 2002,0 00 215084 0 Show More
by T.J. Binyon.
HarperCollins, 731 pp., £30, September 2002,
“... Onegin begs for Rossini’s treatment, then Pushkin’s life seems to have resembled a libretto by Stendhal with music by Mozart. The extraordinary wealth of Binyon’s research – his biography represents a true lifework, a long simmering of scholarship – only confirms the sense one already had of Pushkin’s maniacal libidinousness, his swaggering ... ”