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Distinguished by James E. Falen s masterful use of contemporary American English and handling of rhyme and meter, this new translation of Alexander Pushkin s verse novel ably provides English readers with the chance to experience the work of the poet Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature.The introduction includes Falen s discussion of how his translation compares with those of his predecessors and a general analysis of the poem. Nearly one hundred notes annotate the text."
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"One of the living wonders of Nabokov's Nova Zembla is this huge scholarly miracle. . . . [W]hat Nabokov has done is to throw a bridge between Russian and American Culture, a bridge built out of his all-informative commentary and agonizingly honest translation."--Virginia Quarterly Review
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James E. Falen is Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His previous publications include "Isaak Babel: Russian Master of the Short Story."
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- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0670298891
- ISBN 13 9780670298891
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition Thus. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, born in 1799 in Moscow, was the founding father of Russian literature. He had a simplicity and purity of language, a directness and immediacy of vision, that were entirely and spontaneously his own. In both prose and verse, he was a pioneer: whether in <i>Boris Godunov</i>, a historical drama of Shakespearean grandeur; in prose stories like <i>The Queen of Spades</i>; or in <i>Eugene Onegin</i>, a poetic novel-in these and other great works of literature Pushkin broke new ground, with the freshness of the innovator but with all the authority of genius.<br /><br />Although Pushkin himself-like his hero Onegin-was a man of fashion and lived in the highest society, his attitude toward the imperial establishment remained satirical and rebellious. He began <i>Eugene Onegin</i> in 1823 in south Russian, during his banishment from St. Petersburg, and continued it in Moscow and various country houses; it was completed in 1831. Its account of Onegin's duel with Lensky has a particular poignancy in view of the poet's fate in 1837, when he was killed in a duel with an emigre French officer over an argument about Pushkin's wife, the beautiful Natalya Goncharovna.<br /><br />It is useful to say that <i>Eugene Onegin</i> is incomparable and untranslatable. And, since Vladimir Nabokov's work on this Russian classic-which reproduced the exact meaning but disclaimed any further ambition to bring the verse form to life in English-the proud austerity of Pushkin's poetry, its technical virtuosity, its lyrical intensity and gusto have remained behind a soundproof wall, as it were, for English-language readers.<br /><br />Sir Charles Johnston's translation brings out the special qualities of <i>Eugene Onegin</i> as a poetic novel in the fullest sense: the touching beauty and cynical wit of the poem; the psychological insight, the devious narrative skill, the thrilling, compulsive grip of the novel; the tremendous swing and panache of the whole performance. As Peter Levi wrote in <i>The Sunday Times</i> (London), "A translation of <i>Onegin</i> has appeared as near perfect as I think we shall ever get. It has something of the technical dash, the swiftness and the brilliancy and the warmth of Pushkin. Even the jokes are still funny. This new translation has taught me more about Pushkin than I had understood by other means. Its obvious virtues are speed and wit, but its truth of tone is what makes it a moving and an admirable work. Johnston's Onegin is a magnificent achievement." Seller Inventory # DADAX0670298891
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