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.
Author: Aleksandr Pushkin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07/31/2018
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780691181011
Language: English
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