Pushkin fandom
10 May 2020 11:06 pmI'd forgotten I used to have such a passion for Pushkin. All the symptoms of teenage fandom, with hindsight: I was hankering after Collected Editions, translating poems, failing to write essays because I was busy reading in Russian(!), reading historical novels and literary critiques about him and bringing his work into all sorts of unrelated conversations, and feeling immense excitement when someone else in England had actually heard of him. Exactly the way people behave over mangas or superheroes nowadays.
Funny how all that enthusiasm can simply be wiped away or redirected. I mean, I understand how it happened, but it seems in hindsight like somebody else's parallel life -- the person I might have been. The person I was probably intended to be.
Funny how all that enthusiasm can simply be wiped away or redirected. I mean, I understand how it happened, but it seems in hindsight like somebody else's parallel life -- the person I might have been. The person I was probably intended to be.
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Date: 2020-05-11 02:27 am (UTC)I wouldn't be suprised if the actual Pushkin fandom is a thing (like, you know, with fanfics on ficbook.net and all). There definitely is the classic literature fandom of this kind in the Russian part of the Internet, and, from my experience, RPF with historical figures is more common there than in English-speaking fandom too.
I used to consider Pushkin too simplistic but he definitely grew on me with time. Still, I rarely read our authors and not very interested in poetry in general, so I didn't read much of him. :( I really enjoyed Eugene Onegin, though.
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Date: 2020-05-11 02:24 pm (UTC)I actually own a copy of Ivan Novikov's "Pushkin v izgnanii", which I was reading avidly at the point when I was limited to getting it out of the library for one week at a time -- I never did finish it and haven't looked at it in twenty-five years.
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Date: 2020-05-11 02:36 pm (UTC)Yes, it seems there are lots (and now I know why I never heard of ficbook.net -- it's a Russian archive :-D)
They even have them for Oleg the Wise... https://ficbook.net/fanfiction/books/pushkin_aleksandr___pesnj_o_veshjem_olege
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Date: 2020-05-11 04:49 pm (UTC)