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Eugene Onegin

- A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)

About Eugene Onegin

When Vladimir Nabokov''s translation of PushkinΓÇÖs masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of NabokovΓÇÖs 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 NabokovΓÇÖs 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." NabokovΓÇÖs 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 centuryΓÇÖs 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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691181011
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 380
  • Published:
  • July 30, 2018
  • Dimensions:
  • 216x141x24 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 476 g.
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Description of Eugene Onegin

When Vladimir Nabokov''s translation of PushkinΓÇÖs masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of NabokovΓÇÖs 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 NabokovΓÇÖs 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." NabokovΓÇÖs 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 centuryΓÇÖs 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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