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Notes on Prosody; From the Commentary to the Author's Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (Bollingen Series, 72)
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Notes on Prosody, Nabokov’s book about poetic meter, is often dismissed as crotchety. It actually succeeds in its stated goal, though, of shedding light on Pushkin’s metrical practice in Eugene Onegin. I recently made my way through Babette Deutsche’s somewhat clomping translation of the book-length poem and suspected what Nabokov shows, that Russia’s high-art verse overlaps with certain light-verse effects in English, freighting the task of translation with more perils than its perilous usual.
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Not for the faint of heart. I thought that I knew a bit about meter and scanning, but this was truly dense--really more like a graduate seminar. I almost gave up but am glad that I didn't. Fascinating deductions about the relationship between prose and poetry slowly worked their way into my brain.
The second half was much more accessible and covered the heritage of Pushkin's ancestors and a general introduction into the relationship between Russia and Turkey during the 18th century. If you are ho ...more
The second half was much more accessible and covered the heritage of Pushkin's ancestors and a general introduction into the relationship between Russia and Turkey during the 18th century. If you are ho ...more
addenda to the Onegin translation that are interesting in their own right, especially if one wants to know about the comparative history and character of English and Russian iambic tetrameters.
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Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков .
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequen ...more
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequen ...more
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