When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg
to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he
strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet
Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana
and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancee - Onegin
finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene
Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke,
along with extensive notes and commentary - was the founding text
of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the
high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the
quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the
archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century.
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