- Forfatter: Aleksandr Pushkin
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 380
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Bollingen Series
- EAN: 9780691181011
- Utgivelsesår: 2018
- Bidragsyter: Pushkin, Aleksandr
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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 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 gene
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