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Evgenii Onegin
- Author
- Alexander Pushkin
- Narrator
- Neville Jason
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 May 2012
- Run Time
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry
What to expect
Critics Review
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Because this is a novel in verse, its audio rendition requires especially focused listening. The text’s impact comes as much from plot and character as from the all-important persona Pushkin creates to tell the tale. Neville Jason recounts the unfortunate Onegin’s story in the voice of an overly tolerant uncle – often amused but sometimes saddened or surprised by the unpredictable behaviour of a favourite nephew. In addition, this translation uses a fair amount of rhyme, which, coupled with Jason’s avuncular persona, suggests a nineteenth-century Russian Dr. Seuss. However, given Pushkin’s likely goal of mocking social mores of the time and exposing shallow behaviour, that matter-of-fact avuncular voice sounds just right – self-possessed, didactic, and a little distant.
L.X., AudioFile
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Details
- Author
- Alexander Pushkin
- Narrator
- Neville Jason
- Duration
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 May 2012
- ISBN
- 9781843795681
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Poetry
Synopsis
Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Pushkin’s unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy and the consequences of social convention. This is the first time the work has appeared on audiobook and is part of the Naxos AudioBooks intention to make the major European literary works available on audiobook.
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