Der Dichter und die Staatsmacht: Aleksandr Puškins poetischer Dialog mit der russischen Autokratie

Abstract

Up until now Pushkin's relationships with the Czar and the Russian autocracy have been analyzed and evaluated in many ways based on his letters, journalistic writings and novels. This paper, however, asks how Pushkin in his early poetry which refers to the "justification" or "advice"literature of the Enlightenment has tried to establish a poetic dialogue with the Czar and Russian aristocratic society. But the more time passed the more distance he had to this literary model. His later poetry attains a utopian dimension; at first with reference to the aesthetic autonomy of the art but later to the literary representation of a free, unregulated way of life under the structure of the Russian autocracy