Sunday, May 22, 2016

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I'm headed up to our camp next week at Beech Hill Pond in Maine. It's a great setting for reading classics. I'm going to delve into Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin." Any other suggestions?

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  1. If you're delving, that means Nabokov. You'll have a full plate.

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  2. Mine is the versification by Douglas Hofstadter. I know Nabokov said you have to read the literal translation (did he write one? I think so). Should I take that too? Hofstadter has a section in his preface titled "Nabokov Hopes for Yet Greater Ugliness." I sense a "war" here...

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  3. There are plenty of wars when it comes to Nabokov and Pushkin. At least he and Edmund Wilson were both living. Charles Johnston's translation inspired Vikram Seth's wonderful The Golden Gate — high recommendation all on its own.

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