Eugene Onegin : : A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1) / / Aleksandr Pushkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Pushkin, Aleksandr,
• TeilnehmendeR: Boyd, Brian.; Nabokov, Vladimir.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Classics ; 620
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

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.

Table of 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