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Eugene Onegin
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bookshelves: favourites, russian, anti-hero-es, favourite-heroines, love-and-romance, poetry, 1001-books, seen-the-film, moscow, greatest-love-stories, multiple-reads
Dec 02, 2010
bookshelves: favourites, russian, anti-hero-es, favourite-heroines, love-and-romance, poetry, 1001-books, seen-the-film, moscow, greatest-love-stories, multiple-reads
Onegin, the main protagonist, travels to the country where he meets the idealistic poet Lensky, who introduces him to the sisters Olga (whith whom Lensky is in love) and Tatiana (who falls in love with Onegin). So starts this story of love, life, innocence and jaded young dandies who can only love what they cannot have.
This is one of my favourite books of all time. I have read it countless times and I am sure I will continue coming back to it again and again.
It is so simple yet so beautiful and the poetry is incomparable (in original at least, I am not sure what the translation is like).
We had to learn certain passages off by heart at school and, astonishingly, this was one of the very few books that we had to read as part of the curriculum, when I did not mind, in fact, was eager to do so. Tatiana and Onegin were more real to me than many of the people I know today. I remember reciting bits over and over again aloud to myself pretending that I was Tatiana. I WAS Tatiana. Restless and drunk on love, staying up half the night and writing poetry to my first crush (alas, never sent) and crying with her over Onegin's letter at the end.
Tatiana to me is one of the best written female characters in all of literature. She has depth, intelligence, passion but, most of all, integrity. Whereas Onegin is charmingly decadent and devoid of morals and gets his come-uppance well and truly in the end.
A must read.
This is one of my favourite books of all time. I have read it countless times and I am sure I will continue coming back to it again and again.
It is so simple yet so beautiful and the poetry is incomparable (in original at least, I am not sure what the translation is like).
We had to learn certain passages off by heart at school and, astonishingly, this was one of the very few books that we had to read as part of the curriculum, when I did not mind, in fact, was eager to do so. Tatiana and Onegin were more real to me than many of the people I know today. I remember reciting bits over and over again aloud to myself pretending that I was Tatiana. I WAS Tatiana. Restless and drunk on love, staying up half the night and writing poetry to my first crush (alas, never sent) and crying with her over Onegin's letter at the end.
Tatiana to me is one of the best written female characters in all of literature. She has depth, intelligence, passion but, most of all, integrity. Whereas Onegin is charmingly decadent and devoid of morals and gets his come-uppance well and truly in the end.
A must read.
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December 2, 2010
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February 3, 2011
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February 14, 2011
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March 2, 2011
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March 2, 2011
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March 2, 2011
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March 2, 2011
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August 4, 2011
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May 12, 2012
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July 7, 2014
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moscow
January 7, 2015
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February 23, 2022
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Aug 01, 2011 05:11AM
I used to love reading the Russians when I was a teenager and I'd forgotten about this book. I wasTatiana too. (But Anna Karenina was my favourite).
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Oh I love Anna too, I just don't like what Tolstoy does to her and all the side commentary with endless Levins Kitty's etc. I have to read the big Tolstoy epics selectively to be able to enjoy them. I've never thought of myself as being ADD but his gems are buried in so much mire that I just had to read diagonally (I skipped most of the War in War and Peace, for example, other than the required scenes which we had to discuss in class) and that was the accepted method of reading Tolstoy in school at 15-16 (which is when I read War and Peace). Anna Karenina was a bit later but I still had to flick over all the lectures on farming etc. Plus I hate hate hate all the preaching in Tolstoy's books and it doesn't help that I think he is a bit of a prick, personally. Pushkin was just that much more delightful and fascinating as a person, so I'm sticking to Onegin.
I just made myself want to re-read it again.
