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Welcome to our Russian Literature Book Club based in Durham, North Carolina! We read great works of Russian (and sometimes broader European) literature from Tolstoy and Franz Kafka to Nabokov.
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The Captain's Daughter by Pushkin
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, USHi Folks,
Consider joining us for our discussion of Pushkin's one completed novel, The Captain's Daughter, on May 31 at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Pugachev Rebellion of 1773, The Captain's Daughter follows young Pyotr Grinyov, a naive nobleman dispatched to a remote frontier fortress on the Russian steppe. There, he falls deeply in love with Masha Mironova, the commandant's gentle daughter. Holy smokes: it goes on from there. For additional info, ask ChatGPT for a summary or see The Captain's Daughter's Wikipedia Entry.
Reviewers all say the best translation is the one by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, described at https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-captain-s-daughter. One Audiobook option is available at https://play.google.com/books/listen?id=AQAAAEASUjcSNM; it runs 4 1/2 hours. (The intonation is a little flat, but the price at 25 cents is certainly hard to beat.)
Bulletin: A number of us are going to the MET Opera version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, with music by Tchaikovsky, on May 6 at the SilverSpot Theater in Chapel Hill. Performances are at 1:00 and 6:30 pm. A number of us will have a modest dinner nearby at about 5:15. For more information, go to the MET or Silver Spot website or email rphaney123@gmail.com
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