Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse: Text

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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• Authors: Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander S. Puschkin, Aleksandr Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
• Assisted by: Brian Boyd (Foreword), Boyd Brian (Foreword), Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Vladimir Nabokov (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2018
• EAN: 9780691181011
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18101-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Princeton Classics; Eugene Onegin; Bollingen Series (General); Princeton Classics; Bollingen Series; Eugene Onegin
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism