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12-21-2023, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl Copeland
David, just don’t go around telling people Pushkin is morbid. They’ll look at you funny. Pushkin is everything. That’s the most famous statement about him, made by a 19th-century Russian critic: “Pushkin is our everything.” Since you found this poem a downer, here’s a little pick-me-up from Pushkin himself:
If you find that life deceives you,
don’t be angry, don’t be glum.
Humbly bear the day that grieves you:
days of joy, believe, will come!
In the future lives the heart,
and, though dreary be the present,
all is fleeting, all will part,
and what’s parted will be pleasant.
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So, is this the ultimate Pushkinian statement? (Answer: probably not. But still ...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
Anyway, you've made me get my Penguin Eugene Onegin down off a relatively neglected shelf.
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12-21-2023, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by David Callin
Anyway, you've made me get my Penguin Eugene Onegin down off a relatively neglected shelf.
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Is that the Stanley Mitchell translation? I met Mitchell in Moscow some years ago, and his translation may well be the best, though Falen is also very good.
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12-21-2023, 01:26 PM
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Is that the Stanley Mitchell translation? I met Mitchell in Moscow some years ago, and his translation may well be the best, though Falen is also very good.
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This one is Charles Johnston.
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