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Synopsis
The composition of this novel in verse occupied a substantial portion of Pushkin's most productive years, from 1823 to 1831. His subject matter, genre, and even the meter he chose, were all influenced by Lord Byron and, in particular, "Childe Harold" (1812-1818). Eugene Onegin is an educated dandy in Petersburg society, an archetype for the "superfluous man" in Russian literature who suffers from melancholy and an aching but willful detachment from the conventional aristocratic lifestyle. These very qualities make him the object of Tatyana Lavin's love when he decides to accompany his friend Lensky on an excursion to court Olga Lavin. Tatyana soon declares herself in a letter to Onegin, but he believes that his temperament is beyond the possibility of love, that he could never be happy, and he tells her so. A few weeks later Onegin reluctantly accepts an invitation to Tatyana's name-day party and, feeling spiteful about the whole affair, provokes Lensky by dancing with Olga. Thinking his good friend will not go through with it, Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel. Mechanically, Onegin accepts the challenge and the following day Lensky is killed. Olga is inconsolable and Tatyana is taken away to Moscow by her family to find a suitable husband. Years pass, and when Onegin next sees Tatyana at a Petersburg ball she has married a wealthy prince and is a prominent member of society. He now finds himself consumed with desire for her and writes her a letter that mirrors the one he received from her years earlier. Onegin waits in vain for her reply until finally he visits her at home. Tatyana admits that her love for him has not diminished, but her position in society, her duty towards her husband, outweigh his unwelcome, belated, and tactless emotions.
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Industry Reviews
"'Eugene Onegin' is not just a story of a socially realistic hero, nor is it a Byronic imitation. It is the narrative of the struggle by an individual against his socially determined limitations....It is 'the new novel,' the study of the world of the family...leaning forward, both by theme and by narrative expansiveness to 'Fathers & Children', to 'The Idiot', to 'Anna Karenina'--and finally to 'Doctor Zhivago', our contemporary 'novel in prose.'"
"The Russian Novel - F. D. Reeve (01/01/1967)
"[A] lively English version of Pushkin's 1831 verse novel....A masterly performance, and a thoroughly charming book."
Trilling
"Hofstadter's ignorance of English, the English of poetry...dooms his translation. He has absolutely no ear when it comes to mixing levels of diction....There's not a single line that sings or zings. He's caught the rhythm and nothing else, which makes the rhythm wrong by making it too pronounced....The result is tortured syntax, groan-inducing rhymes and a language unlike that ever spoken by anyone on earth."
Lourie
"There is, indeed, almost every species of good writing--dark and bright, mocking and tender, gay and serious, brilliant and passionate--in this remarkable novel in verse; writing that proclaims Pushkin's knowledge of human nature, his acute observations of the physical world, his thorough familiarity with sophisticated life and the social scene; writing that at the same time, in a rather taxing fourteen-line stanza, can be wonderfully lyrical, immensely poetic, or have the crackle of epigram, the ballroom gloss of 'vers de société.'...No one, more than Pushkin, has so brilliantly described the social scene or so ably appraised it, but it is the measure of the poem's high excellence that it describes and appraises so much else, and can elsewhere be as intense and poetic as here it is glittering and sharp."
"The Polished Surface" - Louis Kronenberger (01/01/1969)
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