Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
Alexander Pushkin author Mary Hobson translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Anthem Press
Published:28th Jun '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Russian classic in translation
A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.
A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.
This is essential reading for anyone with a love of Russian literature, because this is where it all began. There is little pre-history to that golden age of 19th century novels. Lomonosov, a fisherman’s son turned scholar, took church Slavonic, peasant Russian, mixed in a few ‘Loan translations’ and gave a French-speaking aristocracy a literary language; Pushkin was the first truly great poet to use it; Yevgeny Onegin is his greatest work.
A breath-takingly brilliant tour de force' —Sue Arnold, the Guardian
ISBN: 9781783084586
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182 pages