Roman A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin." A comment. Lotman Yu.

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman - a world -famous scientist, philologist and culturologist, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia, Norway and Sweden, an honorary doctor of many universities. His works are translated into the main European languages. For the work "A. S. Pushkin. Biography ”and“ Roman A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”. Comment ”Lotman was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“Comment” includes as general articles revealing the features of the noble life of the Pushkin era, the internal chronology of the novel, the history of its creation, the problem of prototypes, and two types of explanations: the actual (explaining the meaning of archaic words, lost realities and realities, and literary reminiscences) and conceptual (analyzing features of the structure of the work, the originality of the author’s position, the logic of the formation of characters). In conclusion, a list of basic works about Evgeny Onegin is given, the acquaintance of which will help the reader better understand the Pushkin novel, one of the most complex and significant works in Russian literature.