Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov's extraordinary literary career, as a master of Russian and English prose, is unique. Acclaimed in the limited Russian emigre world, under the name of Sirin, Nabokov switched to writing in English and settled in America, a refugee from Hitler's Europe. Exile, memory, lost love and the magic of childhood are among his themes. Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels, plus his short stories and critical writings, situating his work against the ever-expanding mass of VN scholarship, and noting his cultural debt to Russia, Europe, America and the British Isles.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Release : 1999
File : 162 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780746308684


Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre. Morris' unique and insightful study re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice. After offering a critical overview of the multi-staged history of the reception of Nabokov's poetry and an extensive analysis of his poetic writing, Morris argues that Nabokov's poetry has largely been misinterpreted and its place in his oeuvre misunderstood. Through a detailed examination of the form and content of Nabokov's writings, Morris demonstrates that Nabokov's innovations in the realms of drama, the short story, and the novel were profoundly shaped by his lyric sensibility.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Paul D. Morris
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 2011-09-03
File : 481 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781442698840


Conversations With Vladimir Nabokov

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Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style that advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades, he produced dozens of iconic works, including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and his classic autobiography, Speak, Memory. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. Beginning with the controversy surrounding the American publication of Lolita in 1958, he offers trenchant, witty views on society, literature, education, the role of the author, and a range of other topics. He discusses the numerous literary and symbolic allusions in his work, his use of parody and satire, as well as analyses of his own literary influences. Nabokov also provided a detailed portrait of his life—from his aristocratic childhood in prerevolutionary Russia, education at Cambridge, apprenticeship as an émigré writer in the capitals of Europe, to his decision in 1940 to immigrate to the United States, where he achieved renown and garnered an international readership. The interviews in this collection are essential for seeking a clearer understanding of the life and work of an author who was pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary fiction.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Robert Golla
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release : 2017-04-06
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781496810984


The Garland Companion To Vladimir Nabokov

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First published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-05-22
File : 978 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136601569


The Excitement Of Verbal Adventure A Study Of Vladimir Nabokov S English Prose

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Genre : History
Author : J?rgen Bodenstein
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Release : 1977
File : 767 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9785881083526


Short Story Index 1964 1968

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Release : 1969
File : 616 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015078266726


Short Story Index

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Genre : Short stories
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Release : 1964
File : 616 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:49015003032761


Nabokov S Garden

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Ann Arbor : Ardis
Release : 1974
File : 208 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015011591180


Pniniad

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In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov�s fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much of the complexity and variety of the Russian postrevolution emigre experience in Europe and the United States. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain. Pniniad--the epic of Pnin--begins with Szeftel�s early life in Russia and ends with his years in Seattle at the University of Washington, turning pivotally upon the time in Szeftel�s and Nabokov�s lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparantly was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel�s feelings towards Nabokov were also mixed, raning from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov to persistent envy of Nabokov�s success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Galya Diment
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Release : 2013-05-01
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780295801087


Nabokov A Bibliography

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Andrew Field
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Release : 1973
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39076006270362