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Eugene Onegin : a novel in verse / by Aleksandr Pushkin ; translated and with an introduction by Vladimir Nabokov ; with a foreword by Brian Boyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pushkin, Aleksandr, author.
- Series:
- Bollingen series ; 620.
- Bollingen Series ; 620
- Standardized Title:
- Evgenĭi Onegin. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Onegin, Evgeni (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Onegin, Evgeni.
- Evgeniĭ Onegin (Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich).
- Young men--Russia--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Russia--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.
- Genre:
- Novels in verse.
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlii, 334 pages )
- Edition:
- First Princeton Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Translator's Foreword
- "Eo" Revisited
- Method of Transliteration
- Calendar
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Translator's Introduction
- Description of the Text
- The "Eugene Onegin" Stanza
- The Structure of "Eugene Onegin"
- The Genesis of "Eugene Onegin"
- Pushkin on "Eugene Onegin"
- The Publication of "Eugene Onegin"
- Pushkin 's Autographs: Bibliography
- Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse
- Prefatory Piece
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Notes to Eugene Onegin
- Fragments of Onegin's Journey
- Notes:
- "This is Volume I of a two-volume abridgment of the four-volume hardcover edition. Volume I omits the correlative lexicon of the 1975 edition. Volume II, published separately, combines the commentary, from volumes 2 and 3, and the index from volume 4, and omits the appendixes and the Russian text. The pagination of the 1975 edition except for the frontmatter has been retained." --Title page verso
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii - xxiv).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4008-8969-3
- OCLC:
- 1132690598
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