Two Hares and a Priest

Patricia Beer

  • Pushkin by Elizabeth Feinstein
    Weidenfeld, 309 pp, £20.00, October 1998, ISBN 0 297 81826 0

‘Who do you think will close the door after you? Pushkin?’ The question, which Elaine Feinstein quotes in her introduction to this excellent biography, is one which apparently might still be asked by a Russian mother of a careless child. No British mother would say anything like it, if only because she could not think of a figure with comparable evocative power: writers here are hardly household names. She would certainly not use that of the greatest Russian of them all. Some of us call our cats Pushkin but that is about as far as it has gone.

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