EUGENE ONEGIN - A NOVEL IN VERSE V.1: A NOVEL IN VERSE

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Princeton University Press, 1990 - 334 pages

"In an era of inept and ignorant imitations, whose piped-in background music has hypnotized innocent readers into fearing literality's salutary jolt, some reviewers were upset by the humble fidelity of my version. . . ." Such was Vladimir Nabokov's response to the storm of controversy aroused by the first edition of his literal translation of Eugene Onegin. This bold rendering of the Russian masterpiece, together with Nabokov's detailed and witty commentary, is itself a work of enduring literary interest, and reflects a lifelong admiration for Pushkin on the part of one of this century's most brilliant stylists.

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I've read another translation before in proper verse, and while I understand that the story's not the same without the rhymes, Nabokov's rendering is, I think, as close to perfection as I will come until I can read the original.

Table des matières

• CHAPTER ONE: 93
• CHAPTER TWO: 123
• CHAPTER THREE: 147
• CHAPTER FOUR: 175
• CHAPTER FIVE: 201
• CHAPTER SIX: 225
• CHAPTER SEVEN: 249
• CHAPTER EIGHT: 279
• NOTES TO EUGENE ONEGIN: 311
• FRAGMENTS OF ONEGINS JOURNEY: 321

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: EUGENE ONEGIN - A NOVEL IN VERSE V.1: A NOVEL IN VERSE; Volume 114 de Bollingen Series (General) Series; Bollingen series; Volume 1 de Eugene Onegin : a novel in verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Transl. from the Russian with a commentary by Vladimir Nabokov; Volume 1 de Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Владимир Владимирович Набоков; Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks
• Auteur: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
• Rédacteur: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• Traduit par: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• Édition: réimprimée, annotée
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0691019053, 9780691019055
• Longueur: 334 pages