The Golden Gate (novel)

The Golden Gate (novel)

Infobox Book |
name = The Golden Gate


image_caption =
author = Vikram Seth
country = United States
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher = Random House
release_date = 12 March 1986
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 307 pp (hardcover edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-394-54974-0 (hardcover edition)

"The Golden Gate" (1986) is poet and novelist Vikram Seth's first novel. The work is a novel in verse composed of 690 Onegin stanzas (sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual "ababccddeffegg" pattern of "Eugene Onegin"). It was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of Pushkin's 1833 Russian classic, "Eugene Onegin".

Set in the 1980s, "The Golden Gate" follows the lives of a group of yuppies in San Francisco. Seth based the work on his experiences as a graduate student in Economics at Stanford University [http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/18bsp.htm] ; portions of it make reference to the "Printers Inc. Bookstore" and "Cafe" in Palo Alto, California (sections 8.13 and 8.14).

External links

* [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0679734570 Powell's review]
* [http://www.tetrameter.com/seth.htm Selections from The Golden Gate]
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=729 The Literary Encyclopedia] (in progress)
* [http://lib.ru/LITRA/PUSHKIN/ENGLISH/onegin_j.txt An online copy of Charles Johnston's translation of Onegin]


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