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Book Description
In time for the bicentennial of Pushkin's birth, a wonderful new translation of his classic novel by Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gdel, Escher, Bach and Le Ton beau de Marot
When Alexander Pushkin published his classic romantic novel of thwarted love and conflictinContinue
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- English Books
- Hardcover 137 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0465020933
- ISBN-13: 9780465020935
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Pub date: May 01, 1999
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Nobokov would be preferable
His literal translation would be more beneficial to read than all this singsongy nonsense.
The story remains a very powerful one to me though. I wish I could read Russian! I saw the story of Onegin in ballet form. The Eifman ballet did it and it was so moving. I can't explain. When Tatyana wrote h ... (continue)
His literal translation would be more beneficial to read than all this singsongy nonsense.
The story remains a very powerful one to me though. I wish I could read Russian! I saw the story of Onegin in ballet form. The Eifman ballet did it and it was so moving. I can't explain. When Tatyana wrote her letter, I felt I had been there. When Eugene sees his writing flown to the winds of futility, I felt I had been there. I wish this book had been more like that. I think the need to rhyme mired the thing.
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