By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov
"In an period of inept and ignorant imitations, whose piped-in historical past tune has hypnotized blameless readers into fearing literality's salutary jolt, a few reviewers have been dissatisfied by means of the standard constancy of my version." Such used to be Vladimir Nabokov's reaction to the hurricane of controversy aroused by way of the 1st version of his literal translation of Eugene Onegin. This daring rendering of the Russian masterpiece, including Nabokov's targeted and witty statement, is itself a piece of putting up with literary curiosity, and displays a lifelong admiration for Pushkin at the a part of one in all this century's so much impressive stylists.
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