Word: onegin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waste of time," though he acknowledges that they "may be of help to students incapable of learning German or unwilling to take the time to do it." He agrees completely with Edmund Wilson's celebrated verdict that Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is unreadable. Lately, Manheim has been outraged by the praise lavished on the new English version of Remembrance of Things Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was a little awkward and a little mistaken, but he did a "marvelous job. Now Terence...
...course, no translator of the classics has a guarantee of exclusivity: in the 20 years since Walter Arndt won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for his masterly version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, three publishers have brought out new translations of the same poem. Rabassa, who expects that his version of One Hundred Years of Solitude will ultimately be supplanted, believes the development is inevitable: "If you read Cervantes in Spanish today, he sounds relatively modern, but the translations of Don Quixote made by Cervantes' contemporaries seem terribly archaic." This variety of renditions has some advantages; each new translation...
...students from the company-related School of American Ballet. Both John Taras, one of the ballet masters, and Peter Martins, the company's top male dancer, who is doing more and more choreography, did their best work for students. Taras' setting of the sophisticated waltz from Eugene Onegin is a civilized pleasure to watch. He creates unfussy, satisfying patterns and matches them to the still developing skills of his cast. They should be grateful for their roles, and it is likely that the Onegin waltz, knowing and unassuming, will be around a long time...