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Verse novel · 1833

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

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Verse novel · 1833 · Russian · Romantic

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

A dandy refuses a country girl's letter and meets her again, unavailable, years later.

Verse novelRomanceSatireBoredomLettersRegretSociety

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The Onegin stanza turns irony into a metrical habit; Tatyana's letter is the moral centre of Russian literature — and its refusal is the wound the rest of the century writes about.

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