Evgenii Onegin / Евгений Онегин
In every culture there are works which express the spirit, the soul of its people; in Russian culture the novel in verse, Evgenii Onegin, by the great Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, is such a phenomenon. It is the most important work in verse in Russian literature. Embracing the events of the first quarter of the 19th century, it is a veritable encyclopaedia of Russian life. Pushkin began work on the novel in 1823. The first chapter was published in 1825, the novel was completed in 1831, and in 1833 it was published. The work is written in what became known as ‘Onegin’ stanzas, each consisting of 14 lines. There are now more than twenty English translations of Pushkin’s novel, by American, British and Russian...
Дата выхода: февраль 2018