EPISODE · Sep 19, 2025 · 38 MIN
Night School: Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
from Bookwarm Games · host Wesley Schantz
And Nabokov, again. Alex and I join a conversation that has been going on for some time--Reviewed by Edmund Wilson: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/07/15/the-strange-case-of-pushkin-and-nabokov/ Nabokov replies: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/08/26/letters-the-strange-case-of-nabokov-and-wilson/ The text of Nabokov's translation of this timeless, elegant, bizarre "Novel in Verse" can be found online, but it takes some searching. Thanks for listening.
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And Nabokov, again. Alex and I join a conversation that has been going on for some time--Reviewed by Edmund Wilson: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/07/15/the-strange-case-of-pushkin-and-nabokov/ Nabokov replies: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/08/26/letters-the-strange-case-of-nabokov-and-wilson/ The text of Nabokov's translation of this timeless, elegant, bizarre "Novel in Verse" can be found online, but it takes some searching. Thanks for listening.
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