He is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science as well as the Director for the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University in Bloomington. Eugene oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russias greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages. Hofstadter is the author of several books, including Le Ton beau de Marot and Metamagical Themas. This work will correspond with Pushkin's 200th anniversary thus, it should be a timely and well accepted literary gem.Ībout the Author In addition to Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, Douglas R. There is also a preface in Onegin stanzas, in which Hofstadter talks about Pushkin, his novel in verse, its form and content, the challenges of translating it into English and his deep admiration for Falen's version. Hofstadter's version is entirely in so-called "Onegin stanzas" - a unique sonnet form devised by Pushkin with a very intricate rhythmic and rhyming pattern. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s part of a huge.About the Book A wonderful translation of Pushkin's classic novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Godel, Escher, Bach.īook Synopsis Sparked by reading Jim Falen's beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, distinctly American, colloquial version of the Alexander Pushkin classic. He’s noticing other disturbing things too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. summary Vladimir Nabokovs famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkins Eugene Onegin When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov’s witty and exhaustive commentary. Onegin is considered a classic of Russian.
But his façade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh, IPA: jvenj nen) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. You just have to ignore one small detail-he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.Ĭassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd.
He hasn’t got magic, so he’s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. And since curse work is illegal, they’re all criminals. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription Cassel comes from a family of curse workers-people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages
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