Lectures on Russian literature
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In the early 1980s, thanks to the efforts of Vladimir Nabokov's heirs and the American textual scholar F. Bowers, readers discovered a new facet of the celebrated author of "Lolita" and "Ada." Nabokov's university lectures on Russian and European literature, collected into three volumes and delivered at Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard in the 1940s and 1950s, not only revealed to Western audiences the vast and vibrant world of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, and cast Dickens, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce in a new light, but also strikingly enriched Nabokov's own literary image. Reading Nabokov's lectures, which combine biographical essays with detailed analyses and original interpretations of famous works, became a necessary prerequisite for penetrating the creative mind of a brilliant writer and the very essence of what is called literary art.
This edition represents the first complete translation into Russian of the "Lectures on Russian Literature" and, for the first time, reproduces all the illustrations from the original edition. A significant portion of the lecture material and essays included in this volume are published in new translations. In addition to F. Bowers's notes, the edition includes the editor's commentary.
This edition represents the first complete translation into Russian of the "Lectures on Russian Literature" and, for the first time, reproduces all the illustrations from the original edition. A significant portion of the lecture material and essays included in this volume are published in new translations. In addition to F. Bowers's notes, the edition includes the editor's commentary.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Nabokov Corps
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