Yevgeny Onegin | 
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I‘ve received Pushkin‘s novel in verse from @Butterfinger and I‘m eager to begin. I‘m looking forward to the challenge and I think it‘ll be perfect for some nights by the wood stove on these cold January nights! #LMPBC #GroupU
pickI kept putting this off because I thought it would be hard to understand. I was wrong. I enjoyed every single line. #LMPBC @Readergrrl @mcipher @Hazel2019
I'm thinking about one of these. I'm not one who enjoys poetry. I signed up for the challenge. I do enjoy classics. It will not hurt my feelings if you say no. #LMPBC @Readergrrl @Hazel2019 @mcipher
But even friendship like our heroes
Exist no more; for we've outgrown
All sentiments and deem men zeroes
Except of course ourselves alone.
We all take on Napoleons features
And millions of our fellow creatures
Are nothing more to us than tools
Since feelings are for freaks and fools
Eugene of course had keen perceptions
And on the whole despised mankind
Yet wasn't like so many blind
And since each rule permits exceptions
He did respect a noble few
pickI bought this on a total whim in a train station as my phone was about to die and it‘s one of my best whims ever. I‘d barely heard of Pushkin apart from ‘important Russian guy‘ but this was breathtaking, sometimes literally. Astonishing translation of such a complicated text, for the first time since my degree I had to grab a highlighter and annotate, it was all so fascinating. I feel like I just discovered Austen or Shakespeare for the first time
pickEvery once in a while I find a book that I just can‘t put down because it completely captures my soul this book did that. So beautifully written it is a book of prose in verse with a lovely story. It is very much a classic, please take the time to find this book and compare to literature from today. Fall in love with a classic.
This lovely Heritage Club edition was translated by Babette Deutsch, illustrated with lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg, published in New York in 1943. I couldn‘t resist this one for $15!
@ruskigurl16 This is my other Folio Pushkin. Same illustrators again 😍😍
Took advantage of the Labor Day Weekend sale at Half Price Books today! Everything in the store is 20% off through Monday. Ready to get my nerd on! 🤓. #HPBhaul #nosuchthingastoomanybooks
St. Petersburg is so different from the city I visited in 1990. Now there are shops and tourists everywhere.
pick#LitsyClassics P
The joy of this challenge has been rdng beyond my comfort zone and finding bks that are more than plot. This verse novel was a gr8 to communists + pre revolution russians alike and was a read that tells much about early 19th century tsarist society from duels to dreams of bears. What's more a book that inspired an opera and images of the perfect Russian woman Tatyana
I'll post below a link to a good podcast the supported my read.
Relaxing while waiting for the play to start
High time I added Pushkin to my library, it's not the same to read it from the screen
Not so much a #firstsentence as a first stanza from two different translations of Eugene [Yevgeny] Onegin. I have to say I think adding "Ooh!" as a rhyming device is rather a cheat!
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pickWow, Mr Pushkin has thoroughly impressed me. I came to this book knowing nothing about it and I am amazed at a whole novel written in a specific type of verse. It made me sorry that I don't know Russian, because if it's this good in translation, I can't imagine the original. It's not an easy read but it's gorgeous. Well worth the effort.
Day 27: Snacks. Ice cream sandwiches and some tea, to go with my Pushkin.
#readathon #30daysofreadathon @DeweysReadathon
"Whom then to credit? Whom to tresure?
On whom alone can we depend?
Who is there who will truly measure
his acts and words to suit our end?
Who'll sow no calumnies around us?
Whose fond attentions will astound us?
Who'll never fault our vices, or whom shall we never find a bore?
Don't let a ghost be your bear-leader,
Don't waste your efforts on the air.
Just let yourself be your whole care,
Your loved one, honourable reader!.."
"My uncle - high ideals inspire him;
But when past joking he fell sick,
He really forced one to admire him -
And never played a shrewder trick.
Let others learn from this example!"
#firstlines
17 seems like such an odd choice, Pushkin or not lol.
My FS delivery was just in time for
#foliofriday. I'm starting to run short of my message shelving Space but I could resist these half-price beauties.
I had a bad day but at least I came home to #bookmail ❤📚
"But whom to love? To trust and treasure?
Who won‘t betray us in the end?
And who‘ll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?"
#seasonsreadings2016 Day 4 #notinEnglish Live the rhythm of this masterfully written novel in verse.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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In today's lecture on Yevgeni Onegin (Eugene? Really?) I found out everyone has their own opinion on both Yevgeni and Tatiana, especially Yevgeni. Some didn't like him at all, others sympathised. I think both protagonists are flawed and interesting people who I loved to read about. I really enjoyed the discussion on this book and feel like reading it again, making notes in the margins.
