And then, from all a heart finds tender
I tore my own; an alien soul,
Without allegiances, I vanished,
Thinking that liberty and peace
Could take the place of happiness.
My God, how wrong, how I’ve been punished!
- Alexander Pushkin, Chapter VIII
Contradictions. We are made of dreams and contradictions. We

Евгений Онегин = Yevgeniy Onegin = Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluo

I finally read this marvel of a novel (poem?). Inevitably I have felt for a long time daunted by the stature of the work but now, after finishing it, I feel both still daunted and surprised because it was a much easier read than I had expected.

While reading it, the Onegin story rarely jumped at me.

Douglas Hofstadter, in his informative (but self-indulgent)
Le Ton beau de Marot
, devotes over 500 pages to the subject of translating a 28-line poem from French to English. The book is filled with a multitude of attempts, each with its own character, its own aims in conveying some element of th

"(...) aceita, indulgente, estes
capítulos assim variegados,
ou meio jocosos ou meio tristes,
em fala vulgar ou em tom elevado,
fruto leviano do passatempo,
da insónia, da leve inspiração,
do imaturo, e do murcho, tempo,
de um frio exame da razão,
das marcas dolentes no coração."

Li Eugénio Onéguin, há dois

‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، میتوان گفت که این کتاب ارزشمندترین اثرِ زنده یاد «پوشکین» میباشد که حتی برخی از اصطلاحات و ابیاتِ آن به صورت ضرب المثل نیز درآمده است و «پوشکین» چیزی حدودِ هفت سال، تنها چکنویس هایِ این منظومه را خوانده و رویِ آن کار کرده است، که در نهایت کتاب از 434 صفحه و 8 فصل تشکیل شده است
‎این

My honest reaction to this poem is a sense of awe at the art and the translation, rather than the story itself. Since I, regrettably, don't know nearly enough Russian to read the original, I can't speak to the accuracy of Anthony Briggs' efforts, but each stanza reads with an incredible, hypnotising

Pushkin es un fenómeno extraordinario, tal vez un fenómeno único del alma rusa, tal como lo expresó Gógol... Pushkin aparece precisamente en el despertar de nuestra autoconciencia...y, en este sentido es un guía y un profeta." Fiódor Dostoievski

Me encanta este libro. Alexandr Pushkin, como dice el g

This foundation stone of Russian literature is a smashing, lilting read - and it's only 200 pages to boot, so it's less of a commitment than all those later Russians who thought editing was for assholes.

It's a "novel in verse," which means epic poem, wtf, in iambic tetrameter. It's organized in sta

I dare you, double-triple-dog dare you¹, to find a Russian person who has never heard of Evgeniy Onegin. ¹ If you do somehow manage to find this living-under-the-rock person, I unfortunately cannot provide you with a monetary reward since I have no money to speak of. Instead, I will treat you to the