Fans of Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot will be delighted to see his meticulous theories of translation put into practice in what seems destined to become the definitive English-language version of Eugene Onegin. It is sure to bring new and deserving readers to this neglected literary jewel.[...]

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 consid[...]

In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry-including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin-but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure-fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer o[...]

The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service in a remote fortress, where he falls in love with Masha, Captain Mironov's daughter - but then the ruthless Cossack Pugachev lays siege to the stronghold, setting in motion a tragic train of events. This volu[...]

Jurij Mikhajlovich Lotman - vsemirno izvestnyj uchenyj, filolog i kulturolog, chi trudy perevedeny na vse osnovnye evropejskie jazyki. Ego nasledie chrezvychajno obshirno i naschityvaet okolo vosmisot nauchnykh i nauchno-populjarnykh statej i knig. Osoboe mesto v issledovanijakh Ju. M. Lotmana zanim[...]