Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

A stunning and playful translation of a Russian classic, from a prizewinning scholar in comparative literature and cognition.

“Hofstadter gives this translation a bubbling excitement very much in the fashion of the original.” –Wall Street Journal

Sparked by reading Jim Falen’s beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, distinctly American, colloquial version of the Alexander Pushkin classic. Hofstadter’s version is entirely in...