Ivan Petrovich Pushkin

The Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin are rather unique in their content. The stories within are of little importance and the content serves as tools of the narrators. The stories are celebrating and critiquing, the very act of storytelling. In many ways the hero of the stories is the act of storytelling, paradoxically, the villain is also the act of storytelling. However, the writer is not the only storyteller being celebrated and critiqued, the reader, and the way the reader emplots the story, becomes an important element throughout the narrative. The lines between author and storyteller is blurred and questioned. The editors introduction states that Ivan himself admitted that the tales were not his own creation, but told