Alexander Pushkin

Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to transform himself from romantic poet into realistic novelist. This new translation seeks to retain both the literal sense and the poetic music of the original, and capture the poem's spontaneity and wit. The introduction examines several ways of reading the novel, and the text is richly annotated.

A Novel in Verse

Eugene Onegin

I think this might have been my first time reading something in verse? Not my favorite experience. But this was interesting. Eugene fumbled a baddie fr 

paola montepiedra

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga – Lensky's fiancée – Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene Onegin – presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary – was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century.

Ilse

I really loved this book and Pushkin’s writing! The characters truly came alive on the pages, and the settings were described with just the right level of detail to allow me to imagine myself in it. I savoured each chapter, but at the end just had to know what would happen and as such went on somewhat of a reading binge

Where I normally hate it when authors talk directly to their reader (as it often brings you out of the immersion of the story) here I didn’t mind it at all, and liked getting a little insight into Alexander Pushkin and his dream to become a poet. Definitely a book I’d recommend to others!

Eugene Onegin A Novel in Verse

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