Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse: Text Vol. 1 Pushkin AleksandrPaperback / softback
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse: Text Vol. 1 Pushkin AleksandrPaperback / softback When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited…
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Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse: Text Vol. 1 Pushkin AleksandrPaperback / softback
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. 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. 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.
Now with a new foreword by Nabokov