Pushkin: Eugene Onegin

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, F. Sobotka

Overview

Prof. Briggs provides an introduction which looks closely at the poetry and then, taking the death of Lensky as the most important event,
considers the sotry, the characters and the hidden meanings of the novel. English introduction, Russian text and notes and glossary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853993961
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Russian Texts
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Professor A.D.P. Briggs is Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham in England.

Editorial Reviews

The alarmingly learned mathematician and author of such interdisciplinary marvels as his seminal Gødel, Escher, Bach moves into new territory with a lively English version of Pushkin's 1831 verse novel: the mock-heroic tale of how its bored Byronic "hero" (the eponymous Eugene) enchants, then callously rejects the loving Tatyana, and lives to suffer for his caddish behavior. Hofstadter employs the demanding original rhyme scheme (ABABCCDDEFFEGG: a hybrid of the sonnet and the couplet), devising dozens of ingenious rhymes—and recounts his delighted immersion in Pushkin and the Russian language, in a beguiling Preface that's almost as much fun as the immortal Eugene Onegin itself. A masterly performance, and a thoroughly charming book. .

Kirkus Reviews