Having published widely on philosophical, ethical, and literary subjects, Michael Eskin is the author of Nabokov's Version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Between Version and Fiction; Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan; and Poetic Affairs: Celan, Gr?nbein, Brodsky. He has also published a book of aphorisms, Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life, under the pseudonym Julien David. He lives in New York with his wife and their three children and lectures regularly across the United States and Europe on subjects as diverse as poetry, philosophy, and c...