Open AccessPushkin and Ovid
Author(s) -
Gerson Schade
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2020.xxix.2.7
Subject(s) - adventure , poetry , literature , art , russian literature , philosophy , art history
Alexander Pushkin knew what he shared with Ovid. Both were exiled, having enjoyed a splendid life, both were highly gifted, and not too shy of erotic adventures – of which they speak amply in their poetry. The Russian formalist Tynyanov pointed at such similarities, inventing the literary genre of ‘docufiction’.