Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1) Paperback / softback
by Aleksandr Pushkin
Part of the Bollingen Series series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2018
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- ISBN:9780691181011
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691181011
