Eisenstein Rediscovered by Christie Ian; Taylor Professor Richard; Taylor Richard

Author:Christie, Ian; Taylor, Professor Richard; Taylor, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

THE LIVING STATUES

The collapse of the Decembrist revolt resulted in political quarantine for Pushkin and a ban on publishing Boris Godunov. According to Jakobson, it was also the beginning of a gradual resignation that culminated in Pushkin’s marriage to Natalia.35 The poet became more and more convinced that the revolt had been premature and suicidal. His ‘capitulation’ was expressed in a letter to Zhukovsky in 1826: ‘No matter what my political and religious views are, I intend to keep them for myself alone, and I do not intend to oppose madly the established order and necessity.’36

Towards the end of 1829, as Jakobson has shown, the ‘myth of the destructive statue’ emerges in Pushkin’s poetry.37 This finds expression in ‘The Stone Guest’ (1830), The Bronze Horseman’ (1833) and The Golden Cockerel’ (1834) and its appearance coincides with Pushkin’s proposal to Natalia in 1829. Jakobson’s three principles for the plot development in these poems are:

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