‘THE RUSSIAN BYRON’
[PUSHKIN, Alexander.]
LÉNSTRÖM, Carl Julius. Alexander Puschkin. Rysslands Byron. Ett Skaldeporträtt … första [-sednare] Del [Alexander Pushkin, the Russian Byron. A poetical portrait … first [-second] part] …
Uppsala, Leffler och Sebell; 1841.
Two parts, 8vo, pp. [6], 32, with the title-pages to both parts bound at the front; small repair to inner margin of final leaf, else a good copy in modern cloth boards.
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LÉNSTRÖM, Carl Julius. Alexander Puschkin. Rysslands Byron. Ett Skaldeporträtt … första [-sednare] Del [Alexander Pushkin, the Russian Byron. A poetical portrait … first [-second] part] …
First edition, very rare, of a study of Pushkin by the Swedish literary historian C. J. Lénström delivered at the Gustavian Auditorium on 8 December 1841.
It includes a number of long passages from Pushkin in Swedish translation, opening with a 62-line section of ‘The Conversation between the Bookseller and the Poet’. Some major works like Eugene Onegin are dealt with only in summary, but there are extracts from The Prisoner of the Caucasus, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, The Robber Brothers, The Stone Guest, and Boris Godunov. The work closes with a five-page section drawn of the latter.
This is the first substantial study of Pushkin in Swedish and among the earliest translations of his work – nothing earlier is recorded at the National Library of Sweden or in OCLC for example, though there may have been some in periodical form.
OCLC shows two copies only: National Library of Sweden, and Centre for Research Libraries (part 2 only).
