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Martin Bidney - The Be-Loving Imaginer Episode 34 - Pushkin’s Hero, Tatyana Larina
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Podcast 34: Pushkin’s Hero, Tatyana Larina
In this program, my aim is to introduce the hearer to the hero (now rapidly
becoming a gender-neutral term) of Alexander Pushkin’s world-famed novel in
verse, Eugene Onegin. In many ways, she earns the laudatory title I’m giving her,
and my presentation will help you get acquainted with her background, her cultural
context, her family life, her mother’s personality, and her strong, evolving
personality and character. My “interview” technique, following each 14-line poem
of Pushkin’s with a commentary-sonnet of my own, was stimulated by the
narrator’s own habit of inserting his own comments repeatedly into the action of
the highly absorbing verse novel.
After reading poems 1.1 and 1.5, together with my verse “replies,” to show how
my “interview” or “dialogue” book operates, in my readings about Tatyana I’ll
feature, first, sections 2.23-2.35 with my two poems about Shrove Tuesday (Mardi
Gras) as observed in upstate New York. Then I’ll recite from section 3.1 to 3.21.
The action at this point will have reached a point of major suspense….
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