Ancient history

Alexander Pushkin

In nineteenth-century Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin is the figure of romanticism par excellence. He succeeds classical authors such as Gavrila Derzhavin, then the sentimentalist movement to which Nikolai Karamzin belongs.
Both poet and prose writer, Pushkin breaks the codes of classicism and becomes the poet of Freedom. Indeed, at the beginning of a century marked by revolutionary hopes, in particular the uprising of the Decembrists in 1825, Pushkin wrote in this same spirit and claimed his freedom as a poet. He is also the author of the poem "La liberté", and his rights as a free poet are also found in La Fille du Capitaine , published in 1836, a work in which he allows himself to merge fiction and history. Boris Godunov is also a work imbued with the history of Russia, namely the time when we were looking for who to give the crown during the Time of Troubles. But it was his writings in favor of the attempted coup d'etat of 1825 that led him into exile, where he nevertheless continued to write. He died in 1837 during a duel, at the age of thirty-seven.
Pushkin largely represents the golden age of Russian literature between the years 1810 and 1840. It thus precedes the arrival of the natural school, a militant literature committed to presenting the life as it is as a means of denunciation. Nicolai Gogol, close to Pushkin, successfully took over Russian literature, soon followed by realist authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.


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