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...snack in an Armenian hotel and agree to improvise a story on a common subject. One writer tells the story of Sarkov, a Russian poet on his way to American by sea. On board ship feeling quite ill, Surkov often becomes delirious and imagines himself to be Pushkin. Also in a rather hallucinatory way he runs into the ubiquitous Finn, Satanic old man who has taken part in all of the world's great massacres. In this milieu, Surkov sits down to finish composing Pushkin's fragment of a story entitled. "Egyptian Nights...
Mozart's death has been variously ascribed to rheumatic fever, uremia and even murder by poisoning. Alexander Pushkin wrote a play that pinned the guilt on Mozart's musical rival Antonio Salieri, and Rimski-Korsakov turned the literary libel into a miniopera. Playwright Peter Shaffer recently gave the Salieri legend a new stage life with Amadeus, in which Mozart has the sex habits of a randy poodle and the court manners of John McEnroe...
...seemed to have known one another personally. Every Russian author was constantly cross-referencing, borrowing, comparing himself with the past. He would carry on a conversation, in his own art, with his literary ancestors. Every writer became the sum of all the writers who came before him: Gogol absorbing Pushkin, Dostoevsky absorbing both Gogol and Pushkin...
...What was I to do? Of course-there was always poetry! I recited Pushkin, Blok, Nekrasov and Tyutchev." She then composed a poem...
...flagstone is my only cushion, But Pushkin, sitting in one corner, Sings me a song...