RELIGION AND PASSION IN RUSSIA AND FRANCE Gabri-iliad by Alexander Pushkin; Mystical Book by Alfred de Vigny; Year in a Monastery by Alexei Apukhtin
by Martin Bidney
R eligion and Passion in Russia and France includes 19th century works I have translated by Pushkin (1821), Vigny (1858), and Apukhtin (1883). Readers will see how the selected story-poems by these artists (now newly and form-faithfully rendered in lyrical English) advanced the liberation of our thinking about passion in its continuing and intensifying conflict with religious authority, leading straight toward, or even antedating, 20th-21st century psychoanalysis. No critic has ever put these three storytelling poets together to illustrate the developing thought current I describe. An introductory context including Genesis 3 and the Platonic-Aristotelian exaltation of the allegedly immortal intellect will set the stage for the unfolding rebellious French and Russian dramatic narratives.
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