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the framing of senfences” (SE, 137). Otro aspecto clásico de Pushkin es su
“singleness of action” (SE, 133). Davie sostiene que:
The Capta¡n’s Daughter Es hardly a novel al aB, jusí as PushRin’s sienes are
hardly steries. The Capta¡n’s Daughter Es like the Platenic idea el the perfect
novel; Ef Es ihe idea, fhe incomparable symmetry and economy En fhe fittinQ of
means fo ends, which remain wifh us frem líe reading and whicil we suppese,
pertxaps unlairly, is wiat mosf interested the novelisf in the wrifing. By fhe
sarna token it is tie bara iard impersonality ob style, its inexorable movement
brem subjecf threugh verb te ebjecf, which Es fruly poefic prose - not the
yearnEng cadences and jewelled imagery en the prosa of W.B. Yeats, buí
everything sacriticed fo concenfration and rapidify. (SE, 134).
Vinculables al clasicismo son otros aspectos de Pushkin como su
moralismo (SE, 101, 105> y su aristocratismo (SE, 260). En este sentido, Davie
explica que “Russian literature (and, more narrowly, the Russian novel - for
Pushkin wrote novels in verse and prose, as welI as lynic poems>... was the
voice of a gentry culture before it became the voice of the bourgeois
conscience”. (SE, 280).
En resumen, Davie considera a Pushkin un poeta clásico por su
economía narrativa y estilística, su moralismo y su aristocratismo. Como juicio
critico, podemos decir que la ponderación davieana de Pushkin responde al
conformismo. Los valores literarios y sociales del escritor ruso son los que
defiende Davie.
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