David Bethea gives the annual Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture in European Literature, a discussion of the adolescence of Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet and novelist. Bethea is the Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin and the author of four books, including Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Wisconsin, 1998) and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton, 1994).

Bethea is introduced by Cynthia Simmons, professor of Slavic and Eastern languages.

Speaker: David Bethea

Date: March 30, 2006

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