Volume 5, Number 2 · August 26, 1965

Other Comment

By David Magarshack

In response to The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov (July 15, 1965)

To the Editors:

I warmly agree with Edmund Wilson's views of Nabokov's incompetence as a translator. In fact, his "translation" of Eugene Onegin is a grotesque travesty of that great poem. It is yet one more sad example of how a man can be blind to his own shortcomings.

David Magarshack

London


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