Pushkin Threefold: Narrative, Lyric, Polemic and Ribald Verse, the Originals with Linear and Metric Translations

by Alexander Pushkin

Book Overview

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: 0875011071
• ISBN13: 9780875011073
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Ardis Publishers
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 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.