Legacies of the Stone Guest

Alexander Burry, an associate professor of Slavic and East European languages and cultures at The Ohio State University, is also the author of Multi-mediated Dostoevsky: Transposing Novels into Opera, Film, and Drama.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Don Juan in Western Europe and Russia1 The Artist-Seducer as Liberator: Pushkin’s Stone Guest2 Don Juan in Everyday Life: The Era of Realism3 Don Juan in the Silver Age4 Soviet and Post-Soviet Don JuansConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

This clearly framed, beautifully written study offers insightful new perspectives on Pushkin and the writers who derived creative energy from his Stone Guest. Illuminating cultural, social, and political changes in Russia from a novel perspective, Burry takes the reader on an invigorating exploration of the Don Juan legend in its Russian instantiations." - Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University"Alexander Burry shows Pushkin’s version of the Don Juan story as a decisive inspiration for later Russian writers. They picked up where Pushkin left off, often trying to resolve questions that he left productively open. Deeply researched and lucidly written, this study proves that, yet again, tracing the afterlife of a Pushkin text can be revelatory." - Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University "The methodical literary analysis illuminates an overlooked strand in the fiction of the Russian greats. . . . This should pique the interest of Russian literature specialists." - Publishers Weekly