Pushkin. An Unwritten Painting on a White Background

Presented here is Marlen Khutsiev’s film novel "Pushkin" performed by Dmitry Bykov.

"In Khutsiev’s most important and most cherished work—a film novel about Pushkin—there is a literary and very vivid visual quality, as if we can see the camera’s movement, a description of the great poet’s image. The author creates his own picture without direct visual illustration, but through an odd course of the director’s associations. We can imagine a film in which the Pushkin images have been found an absolutely clear and precise visual equivalent." D. Bykov

Marlen Khutsiev is an outstanding Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, known for films such as "Spring on Zarechnaya Street," "Two Fedoras," "I’m Twenty Years Old," "July Rain," and "Epilogue." The main work of his creative life, Khutsiev considered the film about Pushkin—about which he wrote the screenplay, but which he never managed to film.

The audiobook also includes a lecture—a talk by Dmitry Bykov about the author, the read work, the poet, and power.