"In Paris With You", Clémentine Beauvais

This is fanfiction. It is 100% a Modern-Day AU of "Eugene Onegin" - in verse, with Pushkin-style authorial digressions and reflections on the characters - and it's brilliantly done. And in translation, none the less; I haven't seen the French original, but this is a piece of masterly writing in its own right, and I can't imagine the difficulty of trying to get the flavour of such a thing. ( Read more... )