«Extinguished ashes won't rekindle, And though I grieve, I weep no more; And soon, quite soon, the tempest's core Within my soul will fade and dwindle.» (Ch. I, st. 59) ~ «Just love yourself and ease the pain, My most esteemed and honoured reader! A worthy object! Never mind, A truer love you'll never find.» (Ch. IV, st. 22) ~ #Finished: #EugeneOnegin by #AlexanderPushkin. • Rating: 9/10 • Absolutely one of the most emotionally powerful works I've ever read, this "novel in verse" is about the title character, a fop and former heartbreaker become jaded at a young age. He moves to the province and meets #VladimirLenksy, a young poet who is in love with #OlgaLarin. A romantic entanglement involving #Olga's sister #Tatyana and some jealousy occur, and things take a dramatic turn. Covering a broad spectrum of subjects, with its stanzas on love, fickleness, rejection, friendship, Russian society, poetry, balls, duels, youth, death and so forth, Eugene Onegin is truly one the greatest poetic works ever written. ~ It's ahead of its time, has postmodernist qualities: it's metafictonal and self-reflexive, as there are some stanzas on the art of poetry, on being a poet and the writing process of the work. The narrator often interrupts the narration, adresses the reader breaking the fourth wall, and Pushkin inserts himself and his lover into the work, in a ball where #Onegin and Tatyana also are. I think #Pushkin deconstructed the epic poetry genre, which had already evolved and gone out of fashion until his time, and played freely between #poetry and prose, as well as romanticism and realism, using poetry as a means of narrating this novelistic and anti-heroic narrative. ~ «But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won't betray us in the end? And who'll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend? Who won't sow slander all about us? Who'll coddle us and never doubt us? To whom will all our faults be few? Who'll never bore us through and through?» (Ch. IV, st. 22) ~ #ANovelInVerse #Lensky #TatyanaLarin #Zaretsky #ЕвгенийОнегин #YevgeniOnegin #Пушкин #russianliterature #book #books #bookstagram #literature #bibliophile #read #reading #bookworm #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkYLzLgBZU/?igshid=ilpcasycsrlz