Eugene Onegin

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• rustyfe · Jun 30, 2014 · Mentions

  …Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver. It was an interesting read, but it felt a bit shallow in it's analysis. I was feeling the need for some fiction, so I picked up Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin. Not sure what to think about it yet, but it's interesting reading Nabokov's analysis and seeing into his mindset a little. Sheds some light on his work as well.

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• Jun8 · Jul 15, 2018 · Mentions

  …the bitter feuds resulting from translations one of the foremost being Nabokov vs.Wilson (summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/books/review/feud-nabokov..., read Wilson's scathing review of the Eugene Onegin translation that's a textbook case of a hatchet job: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/07/15/the-strange-case-...). If you're interested in her, another good essay is by her other translator, Benjamin…

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• chch · Jun 4, 2024 · Mentions

  I always saw Pale Fire as somewhat of self-parody, which made me enjoy it more. Seven years before Pale Fire came out, Nabokov was working on his translation of Eugene Onegin. Often, people argue that a translated novel should have no end/footnotes, because a "good translation" should read "naturally" to a reader. Nabokov disagreed, and wrote an article that included the phrase:…

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