Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes. It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the edition on which the current accepted version is based was published in 1837.
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Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes. It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the edition on which the current accepted version is based was published in 1837.
It also places Russian literature firmly in the European literary universe. Life in Petersburg is presented as a flood of foreign influences, both material (Evgeny's personal gentleman's accoutrements from London) and cultural (English and French novels of bourgeois sentiment - Richardson,for example - and above all the Romantic school epitomized by Byron, whose sardonically satirical style and real-life and literary celebration of sensuality were so close to Pushkin's own). At the same time these foreign influences act as yeast fermenting Russia's...
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