Verses and Versions（ISBN=9780151012640）

Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously. Here, collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov always wished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With an introduction by Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning biography of Nabokov, "Verses and Versions" is a momentous and authoritative contribution to Nabokov's published works.

Introduction by Brian Boyd
I.NABOKOV ON TRANSLATION
  The Art of Translation
  (I: "A Few Perfect Rules")
  Pity the Elderly Gray Translator
  The Art of Translation
  (II: "A Kind of V Movement")
  On Translating "Eugene Onegin"
  One Day, Exuberant and Gallant
II. NABOKOV: VERSES AND VERSIONS
  MIHAIL  LOMONOSOV  (1711-1765)
  On Mihail Lomonosov
  from OAa Ha B3TI, Ie XOTI, IHa
  from The Hotinian Ode
  from KpaTioe pyKoBOZCTBO K pI, IXOprtKe
  from A Brief Manual of Rhetoric
  from Hewp BeAnxnfi, reponqeca<aa noaMa
  .from Peter the Great, a Heroic Poem

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