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Trois
éditions
originales
de Pouchkine,
reliées
ensemble
POUCHKINE, Alexandre Serguéiévitch.
Евгений Онегин [Eugène Onéguine]. Saint-Pétersbourg, Tip. Departamenta Narodnago
Prosvieschenia, 1825.
In-12 (172 x 104 mm) de XXII pp., (1) f., 60 pp. : cartonnage de papier vert à la Bradel, filets
dorés au dos, pièce de titre de veau rouge (reliure russe de l’époque).
Édition originale, d’une extrême rareté.
Première partie d’Eugène Onéguine qui devait en compter sept. Le dernier chant fut composé en 1830.
Le roman en vers est un des sommets de toute la littérature russe.
“Vissarion Belinsky hailed Pushkin’s ‘novel in vers’ as ‘an encyclopedia of Russian life’ and
a realist masterpiece. A later age prefers to see it as an encyclopedia of literature itself,
nineteenth-century Russia’s meta-literary classic par excellence, or, more recently, as an exemplary
illustration of Zhukovsky’s apt characterization of society : a vast theater where each is at one actor and
spectator” (Houghton Library, Pushkin and his Friends, Harvard, 1987, p. 42.- Kilgour, n° 877).
On trouve relié à la suite deux ouvrages du même auteur :
Цыганы [Tziganes]. Moscou, A. Semen, 1827. 46 pp.
Édition originale, très rare. Écrit en 1823-1824, le poème d’un romantisme byronien se
rattache au cycle des œuvres méridionales alors que Pouchkine était en exil.
“This romantic poem […] is generally considered the finest of the ‘Southern Poems’, and it has
inspired the most diverse, often controversial, critical reaction since its anonymous publication
in May 1827. Long before then, the work, reflecting Pushkin’s stay in Bessarabia, was wellknown
in literary circles because of Lev Pushkin’s habit of reciting his brother’s verse in public
and passing about manuscript copies. Pushkin repeatedly asked his brother to refrain from
this ; his fear of piece-by-piece pilfering of a new work necessitated publication before
the poet felt ready. To Pushkin’s great irritation, Lev ignored his admonitions with The Gypsies”
(Houghton Library, Pushkin and his Friends, Harvard, 1987, nº 31.- Kilgour, n° 880).