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ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS    INTERVIEW "Non-Mortal and Mysterious Feelings": On Pushkinʼs Christianity1 One of the most solemn and final of Pushkinʼs poems, framed as a kind of last word, surveying not only his complete work and its significance, but also its future after the poetʼs death2 concludes with a surprising line: «И не оспоривай глупца» («Dispute not with a fool»). It is surprising because we have come to expect a summation, a resolution in the concluding line of a poem. And Pushkin usually follows this compositional rule in his completed lyrics. So what is this gesture, that seems so unexpected after the solemn and triumphant tone of the preceding lyrics, supposed to mean? Such a conclusion has led some interpreters to consider Monument wholly in terms of a parody of Derzhavin. The «fool» in that case is the person who takes the lofty style of the poem for real. Indeed, how could Pushkin who had proclaimed the

"Non-Mortal and Mysterious Feelings": On Pushkinʼs Christianity | Olga Sedakova's Official Web Site ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS INTERVIEW "Non-Mortal and Mysterious Feelings": On Pushkinʼs Christianity 1 One of the most solemn and final of Pushkinʼs poems, framed as a kind of last word, surveying not only his complete work and its significance, but also its future after the poetʼs death 2 concludes with a surprising line: «И не оспоривай глупца» («Dispute not with a fool»). It is surprising because we have come to expect a summation, a resolution in the conclud

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