Eugene Onegin

work by Pushkin

Also known as: “Yevgeny Onegin”

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Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse by Aleksandr Pushkin, written between 1823 and 1831. The protagonist, Eugene Onegin, is a disillusioned aristocrat and the archetypal superfluous man in 19th-century Russian literature. The work is celebrated for its brilliant form, wit, and philosophical depth, exploring themes of authenticity, social convention, and the limitations of knowledge. It is considered the first truly great Russian novel and has significantly influenced subsequent Russian fiction.12

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Eugene Onegin
of Aleksandr Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin (1833). Onegin is the original superfluous man, a character type common in 19th-century Russian literature. He is a disillusioned aristocrat who is drawn into tragic situations through his inability or unwillingness to take positive action to prevent them.
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of Aleksandr Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin (1833). Onegin is the original superfluous man, a character type common in 19th-century Russian literature. He is a disillusioned aristocrat who is drawn into tragic situations through his inability or unwillingness to take positive action to prevent them.
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Exile in the south
…masterpiece, the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin (1833), on which he continued to work intermittently until 1831. In it he returned to the idea of presenting a typical figure of his own age but in a wider setting and by means of new artistic methods and techniques.
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…masterpiece, the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin (1833), on which he continued to work intermittently until 1831. In it he returned to the idea of presenting a typical figure of his own age but in a wider setting and by means of new artistic methods and techniques.
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faro
…faro played in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin.)
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…faro played in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin.)
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Russian literature
Aleksandr Pushkin
Pushkin’s greatest work was probably Eugene Onegin, the first truly great Russian novel and the source of countless themes and images in Russian fiction. Playful in the manner of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Lord Byron’s Don Juan, it far surpasses them for sheer brilliance of form, wit, and thought. Amid…
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Pushkin’s greatest work was probably Eugene Onegin, the first truly great Russian novel and the source of countless themes and images in Russian fiction. Playful in the manner of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Lord Byron’s Don Juan, it far surpasses them for sheer brilliance of form, wit, and thought. Amid…
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superfluous man
…Pushkin introduced the type in Eugene Onegin (1833), the story of a Byronic youth who wastes his life, allows the girl who loves him to marry another, and lets himself be drawn into a duel in which he kills his best friend. The most extreme example of this character is…
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…Pushkin introduced the type in Eugene Onegin (1833), the story of a Byronic youth who wastes his life, allows the girl who loves him to marry another, and lets himself be drawn into a duel in which he kills his best friend. The most extreme example of this character is…
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