Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988
Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible
By Vladimir Nabokov, Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Two great poets of two nations—Pushkin and Leopardi—died 150 years ago, each scarcely older than his century. As multiple coincidence would have it, these lines of introduction to a piece Vladimir Nabokov wrote about Pushkin on the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian poet's death are being drafted on an Italian street named after Giacomo Leopardi, on July 2, 1987, ten years to the day since Nabokov himself died.
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