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297:'s great novel in verse. Two translations but each of them maintained the same stanzaic form that Pushkin had used. Not because I was interested in Pushkin or Eugene Onegin, but purely because I thought, this is interesting technically that both of them should have been translated so faithfully, at least as far as the form goes. I began to compare the two translations, to get access to the original stanzas behind them, as I donโ€™t know Russian. After a while, that exercise failed, because I found myself reading one of them for pure pleasure. I must have read it five times that month. It was addictive. And suddenly, I realized that this was the form I was looking for to tell my tales of California. The little short stories I had in my mind subsided and this more organically oriented novel came into being. I loved the form, the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions, from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think, during and after reading it." 255:
until its dissolution, which results in the legal marriage of Liz to John's friend Phillip ('Phil') Weiss, and the birth of their son. Following his rejection of Liz, John finds a second paramour in Janet, until the latter and two other friends die in an automobile collision; and is himself invited
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John Brown learns with consternation that his friend and former love Janet Hayakawa has mischievously placed an amorous advertisement of Brown in the newspaper in his behalf; the advertisement is answered, at length, by trial-lawyer Elisabeth ('Liz') Dorati. A short heyday follows, in which Seth
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introduces and develops a variety of characters united in part by their interest in self-actualization (often in the form of
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or carelessness, and elsewhere criticizes news-media and art-criticism for unjust treatment of their subjects.
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At intervals, various characters discuss arguments either against or in favor of
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On one such occasion, I found in the poetry section, two translations of
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In addition, portions of the novel make reference to (the now defunct)
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At the time of the novel's composition, Seth was a graduate student in
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An online copy of Charles Johnston's translation of Onegin
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The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth novel)

Vikram Seth
English
Random House
United States
Hardcover
ISBN
0-394-54974-0
OCLC
12081140
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
first novel
Vikram Seth
novel in verse
Onegin stanzas
sonnets
iambic tetrameter
rhyme scheme
Charles Johnston
Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
yuppies
San Francisco
protagonist
agriculture
Sahitya Akademi Award
Sahitya Akademi
Economics

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