Eugene OneginA Novel in Verse
A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
Aleksandr Pushkin
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ISBN: | 9780691181011 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Published: | 12 June, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Eugene OneginA Novel in Verse
A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
Aleksandr Pushkin
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books , other critics hailed the translation and accompanying commentary as Nabokov's highest achievement. Nabokov himself strove to render a literal translation that captured the exact contextual meaning of the original, arguing that, only this is true translation. Nabokov's Eugene Onegin remains the most famous and frequently cited English-language version of the most celebrated poem in Russian literature, a translation that reflects a lifelong admiration of Pushkin on the part of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant writers. Now with a new foreword by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd, this edition brings a classic work of enduring literary interest to a new generation of readers.
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