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Mikhail Lermontov
Парус
The sail
Moscow: Goppe, 2014
288 x 170 mm. 12 pages
Edition: 10, copy № 7/10 with the
original designs
the year he was forced to leave Moscow. Upon
arrival to Saint Petersburg he went directly to
the sea shore and produced the outline for this
poem while walking along the shore of the Gulf
of Finland. This poem is a good example of the
use of symbolic landscape poetry to represent
a moment of deep philosophical contemplation:
the tranquil view of the sail gliding in the blue
of the sea is replaced by the picture of an
approaching storm. It is probably Lermontov’s
most famous poem. Goppe designed the book
in the form of a sail and illustrated the text with
colour lithographs.
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