Well, are you afraid?
- Only yesterday I was fighting against you and today I am driving beside you and the happiness of my whole life depends upon you.
- Well, are you afraid?
in The Captain's Daughter (1836) de Alexander Pushkin
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- Only yesterday I was fighting against you and today I am driving beside you and the happiness of my whole life depends upon you.
- Well, are you afraid?
in The Captain's Daughter (1836) de Alexander Pushkin
Quando me vejo na contrariedade de escolher uma particularidade - apenas uma - aquela que mais gosto num autor sinto-o como um sacrilégio. Há tantos prismas para se gostar num autor e escolher apenas um torna-se numa injustiça literária!
Os prismas podem reflectir as várias fases da existência da sua escrita, sendo elas distintas são também incomparáveis. Podemos não gostar de um autor na sua fase inicial e apaixonarmo-nos pela sua escrita numa fase mais tardia.
Ou vice-versa. Ou podemos nunca vir a gostar.
Em Pushkin há tudo para se gostar, mas é na sua escrita mais tardia que recai a minha escolha. Uma singularidade que o torna fora do vulgar: a clareza e a graça com que escreve sobre temas dolorosos e sombrios como a loucura, a obsessão, os conflitos sócio-políticos insolúveis.
Consegue invocar as facetas mais terríveis da natureza humana com uma lucidez tal, como se ele próprio não fosse humano, escrevendo-as com simplicidade, mas sem ser simplista, uma qualidade rara e preciosa na escrita.
But then the short day fades, a fire blazes
in the forgotten hearth, now casting a bright flame,
now crumbling slowly, while I sit there reading
or give my drifting thoughts their hour of freedom.
Excerpt from Autumn (A Fragment)
Alexander Pushkin
Robert Chandler (1837)
in Chapter III - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,
Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinsk
People have harsh words for these days of autumn,
but, reader, they are dear to me, I love
their unassuming light, their quiet beauty.
Autumn attracts me like a neglected girl
among her sisters. And, to be quite honest,
she is the only reason to my taste.
She has her good points; whimsically dreaming
and free from vanity, I find her charms appealing.
Excerpt from Autumn (A Fragment)
Alexander Pushkin
Robert Chandler (1837)
in Chapter III - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,
Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinsk
But there's a limit; the snow goes on for weeks
and months, even a bear at length would suffer
from boredom.
Excerpt from Autumn (A Fragment)
Alexander Pushkin
Robert Chandler (1837)
in Chapter III - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,
Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinsk
Now is my time. I bear no love for spring:
the floods, the mud, the stink - I feel unhealthy,
my blood ferments, longing chokes heart and mind.
Better harsh winter; then I can feel happy,
I love the snows, and then beneath the moon
the freedom of a sleigh ride, gliding swiftly,
a fresh-faced girl, wrapped in sable furs,
giving your hand a timid, passionate squeeze.
Excerpt from Autumn (A Fragment)
Alexander Pushkin
Robert Chandler (1837)
in Chapter III - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,
Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinsk
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