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Mud and Stars
- Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
- Gesprochen von: Sara Wheeler
- Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 38 Min.
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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others - Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country’s literary masters. With her, we see the fabled Trigorskoye (“three hills”) estate that Pushkin frequented during his exile, now preserved in his honor. We look for Dostoevsky along the waters of Lake Ilmen, site of the only house the restless writer ever owned. We pay tribute to the single stone that remains of Tolstoy’s birthplace. Wheeler weaves these writers’ lives and works around their historical homes, giving us rich portraits of the many diverse Russias from which these writers spoke.
As she travels, Wheeler follows local guides, boards with families in modest homestays, eats roe and pelmeni and cabbage soup, invokes recipes from Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, learns the language, and observes the pattern of outcry and silence that characterizes life under Vladimir Putin. Mud and Stars gives us timely, witty, and deeply personal insights into Russia, then and now.
Kritikerstimmen
“A literary romp...A well-researched, droll journey around the lives of Russia’s ‘big beast’ nineteenth-century writers - Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Leskov, Goncharov, and Tolstoy - in the context of today’s Russia and ordinary residents of the country...Wheeler deftly brings the landscapes around her up to date.” (Malika Browne, The Times, London)
“Part literary criticism, part travelogue, Wheeler’s fascinating book ventures across the country in the footsteps of ‘golden age’ writers such as Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.... She is as enthusiastic and authoritative a guide as one could wish for.” (Alexander Larman, The Observer, London)
“Well-informed and independent-minded...An intelligent inquiry into the human condition itself...Wheeler is also side-splittingly funny in her breaking of taboos.” (Vanora Bennett, The Times Literary Supplement, London)
