"The Captain's Daughter" & "The Queen of Spades" – Alexander Pushkin
Resources:
Brief biography from Daniel S. Burt's The Literary 100
Richard Pevear's Introduction to Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
Online Articles:
"How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage" by Cynthia Green for JSTOR Daily
"How Pushkin responded to critics and insults" by Yulia Afanasyenko for Russia Beyond
"What’s behind ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, the iconic piece of Russian literature by Alexander Pushkin?" by Nikolay Shevchenko for Russia Beyond
Critical Articles:
THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER:
"Aleksandr Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter: A Poetics of Violence" - Alexander Groce
"Between Nation and Empire: Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter" - Irina Anisimova
"Grinev the Trickster: Reading the Paradoxes of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter" - Polina Rikoun
"Grinev's Dream: The Captain's Daughter and a Father's Blessing" - Caryl Emerson
"Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter" - Irina Reyfman
"Pushkin's Novel The Captain's Daughter as Fictional Family Memoir" - Leslie O'Bell
THE QUEEN OF SPADES:
"Choosing the Right Card: Madness, Gambling, and the Imagination in Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades'" - Gary Rosenshield
"Numbers and Numerology in 'The Queen of Spades'" - Lauren G Leighton
"Pushkin's 'Queen of Spades': A Displaced Mother Figure" - Adele Barker
"Rereading 'The Queen of Spades'" - Andrew Wachtel
"'The Queen of Spades': A Psychoanalytic Interpretation" - Murray M Schwartz and Albert Schwartz
"'The Queen of Spades': A Seriously Intended Joke" - J Douglas Clayton
"Up the down Staircase in 'The Queen of Spades'" - Nathan Rosen
