# Eugene Onegin

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- Book: [Eugene Onegin](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-pushkin/eugene-onegin) ([Eugene Onegin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-pushkin/eugene-onegin.md))
- Authors: [Alexander Pushkin](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-pushkin)
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- ISBN: 978-06-9118-101-1
- Pages: 380
- Published: 2018-07-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Vladimir Nabokov''s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, other critics hailed the translation and accompanying commentary as Nabokov’s highest achievement. Nabokov himself strove to render a literal translation that captured " the exact contextual meaning of the original," arguing that, " only this is true translation." Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin remains the most famous and frequently cited English-language version of the most celebrated poem in Russian literature, a translation that reflects a lifelong admiration of Pushkin on the part of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant writers. Now with a new foreword by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd, this edition brings a classic work of enduring literary interest to a new generation of readers.