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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

Hofstadter, Douglas R.
Pushkin, Alexander

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0465020941
ISBN13: 9780465020942
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Sep 11 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
A stunning and playful translation of a Russian classic, from a prizewinning scholar in comparative literature and cognition.

Hofstadter gives this translation a bubbling excitement very much in the fashion of the original. -Wall Street Journal

Sparked by reading Jim Falen's beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, distinctly American, colloquial version of the Alexander Pushkin classic. Hofstadter's version is entirely in so-called Onegin stanzas - a unique sonnet form devised by Pushkin with a very intricate rhythmic and rhyming pattern. There is also a preface in Onegin stanzas, in which Hofstadter talks about Pushkin, his novel in verse, its form and content, the challenges of translating it into English and his deep admiration for Falen's version.

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