text: Richard Lourie echoed a Flaubert insult by saying of a version of this work, "It is flat, your translation.
full_question: Richard Lourie echoed a Flaubert insult by saying of a version of this work, "It is flat, your translation." Two years after discussing it in Le Ton beau de Marot, Douglas Hofstadter published a translation of this work. Walter Arndt's translation of this work won the 1962 Bollingen Prize. Vladimir Nabokov published a notoriously literal translation of this work, despite calling it "mathematically impossible" to maintain its masculine and feminine rhymes across fourteen-line stanzas. Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate pays homage to, for 10 points, what verse novel by Alexander Pushkin?
first_sentence: Richard Lourie echoed a Flaubert insult by saying of a version of this work, "It is flat, your translation.