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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 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Eugene Onegin
• Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380
• EAN: 9780691181011
• ISBN: 9780691181011
• ID: 18210200
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 216 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2018

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