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1. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Fragments of Onegin's journey

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1. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Fragments of Onegin's journey

Сайт: http://nabokov-lit.ru Размер: 26кб.

Часть текста: him to designate this omitted chapter by means of dots or a numeral; but to avoid ambiguity he decided it would be better to mark as number eight, instead of nine, the last chapter of Eugene Onegin, and to sacrifice one of its closing stanzas [Eight: XLVIIIa]:    'Tis time: the pen for peace is asking   nine cantos I have written;   my boat upon the joyful shore   4  by the ninth billow is brought out.   Praise be to you, O nine Camenae, etc. “P[avel] A[leksandrovich] Katenin (whom a fine poetic talent does not prevent from being also a subtle critic) observed to us that this exclusion, though perhaps advantageous to readers, is, however, detrimental to the plan of the entire work since, through this, the transition from Tatiana the provincial miss to Tatiana the grande dame becomes too unexpected and unexplained: an observation revealing the experienced artist. The author himself felt the justice of this but decided to leave out the chapter for reasons important to him but not to the public. Some fragments [XVI–XIX, l–10] have been published [Jan. 1, 1830, Lit. Gaz. ] ; we insert them here, subjoining to them several other stanzas.” E. [sic] Onegin drives from Moscow to Nizhni Novgorod: [IX]   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . . . . . . . before him   Makariev bustlingly bestirs itself,   4  with its abundance seethes.   Here the Hindu brought pearls,   the European, spurious wines,...