Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society. People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.

Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling-mixing drama, romance, and satire-associated ever with greatly influential later literature. People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories. Nabokov also provides translations of lines and stanzas deleted by the censor or by Pushkin himself, variants from Pushkin's notebooks, fragments of a continuation called 'Onegin's Journey,' the unfinished and unpublished 'Chapter Ten,' other continuations, and an index.Ī work of astonishing erudition and passion, Nabokov's commentary is a landmark in the history of literary scholarship and in the understanding and appreciation of the greatest work of Russia's national poet.

He explains obscurities, traces literary influences, relates Onegin to Pushkin's other work, and in a characteristically entertaining manner dwells on a host of interesting details relevant to the poem and the Russia it depicts. In his commentary, Nabokov seeks to illuminate every possible nuance of this nineteenth-century classic. Presented here in its own volume, the commentary is a unique scholarly masterwork by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers-a work that Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd calls 'the most detailed commentary ever made on' Onegin and 'indispensable to all serious students of Pushkin's masterpiece.' 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. Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin

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