About Pushkin, About Pasternak. Works of Different Years

The study of the poetic worlds of Alexander Pushkin and Boris Pasternak has been undertaken at different times by the best domestic literary scholars. Among them, a prominent place is occupied by Alexander Alekseevich Dolinin, a renowned philologist, honorary professor... at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of numerous works on Russian, English, and American literature. This collection includes his works on the two great poets, united by common research objectives. In each article, the author attempts to decipher a specific riddle that lies within the realm of poetics or literary history, resolve seemingly contradictory and unclear allusions in the text, and establish its contexts and subtexts. A.A. Dolinin's studies generally introduce new material from Russian and Western European culture into the field of view and often have a polemical character. An author's commentary on "Mozart and Salieri" is included in the appendix, where the history of the legend of Mozart's poisoning is detailed, literary parallels to it are established, and the "dark places" of the drama are analyzed.