| Title | : | Eugene Onegin |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin & Vladimir Nabokov |
| Release | : | 2018-07-31 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Criticism, Books, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Poetry |
| Size | : | 8232890 |
| 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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