Alexander Pushkin and Flannery O'Connor

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This paper examines how although an age and several thousand miles separated Russian Alexander Pushkin and American Flannery O'Connor, they should be acclaimed for the sheer genius in their writing, styles the different themes and narrative qualities that have kept readers and audiences spellbound for generations. It looks at how Pushkin's body of works spans poetry romantic and political, essays and novels and how influential music composers like Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky adapted the lyrical and dramatic elements of Pushkin's works. Flannery O'Connor's work, on the other hand, was largely restricted to short stories. It evaluates how the profundity of her work lies in its uniqueness not volume and how her stories combine gruesomeness, truth and religious thought.

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"The short-story "The Queen of Spades," while not necessarily representative of all of Pushkin's work gives us an idea of the narrative skills that keep the reader on edge. (Pushkin, 1834) The twists in the story combine elements of fantasy. But at heart this is a story of evil getting its comeuppance. Good survives and flourishes. The plot of "The Queen of Spades" begins with a talk among gamblers. Tomsky, the grandson of a countess Anna Fedorovna relates a story of a secret his grandmother possessed a secret to winning at a guessing game at cards. Hermann, the son of German expatriate and a man of sober habits, hears the story. "

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