Pushkin threefold; narrative, lyric, polemic, and ribald verse

By Alexander Pushkin

ranslated by Bollingen Prize winner Walter Arndt, Pushkin Threefold is the acclaimed edition of Pushkin's poems that includes three versions of each poem - the original Russian, a close translation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525186522
• ISBN13: 9780525186526
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Two translations are better than one.

Pushkin Threefold is so named because each of the poems featured is presented three times: in metric translation, literal translation, and in Russian. It's a wonderful work because, barring actual fluency in Russian, comparing multiple translations is the closest English-speakers can get to the meaning of the original poems. It loses a star only because some of the poems have been better translated elsewhere. However, it maintains four stars because I've never found any single book which contained _all_ the best translations.