7/5/2023 0 Comments Eugene onegin novel![]() ![]() And then I feel still more pity for the tireless translators who had the monumentally difficult task of rendering those stanzas into some kind of readable English version. And if I was on the point of tearing my hair out over a joke-poem about a famous piece of literature, I can only imagine how frustrated Alexander Pushkin must have been as he sat composing Eugene Onegin, his famous verse novel, which is entirely made up of sonnet-length stanzas. Because it taught me just how difficult it is to write a sonnet (or, indeed, any poem – there go my plans of becoming a bohemian and moving to Paris to live in a loft). But although it’s quite possibly the worst thing I’ve ever written in my life (seriously – I’ve got some stories about seahorses that I wrote when I was seven years old this poem makes them look like Shakespeare), it was a useful exercise. The atrocious poem above took me far longer to compose than I care to admit. How to sum up this novel in just one word?Īll the characters are wealthy and extremely – bored. Russian aristos they knew English and Frenchīut not their mother tongue, it’s decidedly queerĪn appetite for Europe, Pushkin wanted to quench. Just the thing to inspire an emerging nation. ![]() He was a great looker, a fine young dandy ĭanced the mazurka and drank much brandy. Pushkin’s Euegene Onegin, what can I say? This book is #35 on my Classics Club List. ![]()
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