Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1) : 36

AUTEUR(S): Pushkin, Aleksandr .

TAAL: Engels.
ORIGINELE TAAL: Russisch.
UITGEVER: Princeton .
JAAR: 2018.
PAGINA’S: 0.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback / zachte kaft / gelijmd.
ISBN/EAN: 9780691181011.

BESCHRIJVING

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.