Atypical Brothers

Title

Atypical Brothers

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion" 

Description

Onegin and Lensky mended their opposing personalities to form a blossoming friendship, through afternoons spent on horseback.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия

Text

«Знакомство покороче свесть.

Они сошлись. Волна и камень,

Стихи и проза, лёд и пламень

Не столь различны меж собой.

Сперва взаимной разнотой

Они друг другу были скучны;

Потом понравились; потом

Съезжались каждый день верхом,

И скоро стали неразлучны.

Так люди (первый каюсь я)

От делать нечего друзья» (2, XIII, 41). 


“And so they met—like wave with mountain,

Like verse with prose, like flame with fountain;

Their natures distant and apart.

At first their differences of heart

Made meetings dull at one another’s;

But then their friendship grew, and soon

They’d meet on horse each afternoon,

And in the end were close as brothers” (Chapter 2, Stanza 13, Page 41). 

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Date Added
September 13, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Atypical Brothers,” Collections @ ECU, accessed April 24, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/600.