Alexander Pushkin

Eugene Onegin
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-38618-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 151 g

Reihe: Landmarks of World Literature

This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and considers the form of the work and its poetic techniques in detail. He offers fresh interpretations of the characters and events of the poem, and sets it against its European background. He discusses its influence - notably Tchaikovsky's operatic version - and points to its life-affirming philosophy and spirit of joyfulness. The book includes a chronological chart and a guide to further reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, A. D. P.

Stern, J. P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Poetry of Eugene Onegin; 2. Shades of unreality; 3. The unreal reputations of Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina; 4. Olga Lensky and the duel; 5. It is in verse, but is it a novel?