Евгений Онегин / Eugene Onegin

Евгений Онегин / Eugene Onegin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман в стихах А. С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин», одно из самых значительных произведений русской литературы. Перевод на английский язык и комментарии Г. Сполдинга.

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Alexander Pushkin

Eugene Onegin

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Pétri de vanité, il avait encore plus de cette espèce d’orgueil, qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d’un sentiment de superiorité, peut-être imaginaire.

    Tiré d’une lettre particulière.

Canto the First

�He rushes at life and exhausts the passions.’

В В В В Prince Viazemski

I

“My uncle’s goodness is extreme,

If seriously he hath disease;

He hath acquired the world’s esteem

And nothing more important sees;

A paragon of virtue he!

But what a nuisance it will be,

Chained to his bedside night and day

Without a chance to slip away.

Ye need dissimulation base

A dying man with art to soothe,

Beneath his head the pillow smooth,

And physic bring with mournful face,

To sigh and meditate alone:

When will the devil take his own!”

II

Thus mused a madcap young, who drove

Through clouds of dust at postal pace,

By the decree of Mighty Jove,

Inheritor of all his race.

Friends of Liudmila and Ruslan[1 - Ruslan and Liudmila, the title of Pushkin’s first important work, written 1817–1820. It is a tale relating the adventures of the knight-errant Ruslan in search of his fair lady Liudmila, who has been carried off by a kaldoon, or magician.],

Let me present ye to the man,

Who without more prevarication

The hero is of my narration!

Onegin, O my gentle readers,

Was born beside the Neva, where

It may be ye were born, or there

Have shone as one of fashion’s leaders.

I also wandered there of old,

But cannot stand the northern cold[2 - Written in Bessarabia.].

III

Having performed his service truly,

Deep into debt his father ran;

Three balls a year he gave ye duly,

At last became a ruined man.