Lectures on Russian literature
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Lectures on Russian literature
14.99 €
11.99 €
In lecture courses prepared in the 1940s and 1950s for students at Wellesley College and Cornell University and first published in 1981, the major Russian-American writer of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov, appeared to his audience as a thoughtful reader, a perceptive, meticulous yet highly biased researcher, and a temperamental and demanding teacher. On the pages of this volume, Nabokov the lecturer gives an excellent lesson in "close reading" of works by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorky - reading, the method of which is exhaustively described by the author himself: "Literature, real literature, should not be swallowed in one gulp, like a potion, useful for the heart or mind, this "stomach" of the soul. Literature should be taken in small doses, crushed, crumbled, ground up - then you will feel its sweet fragrance deep in the palms of your hands; it should be chewed, rolling it with pleasure with your tongue in your mouth - then, and only then, will you appreciate its rare flavor, and the crushed, crushed particles will come back together in your mind and acquire the beauty of the whole, to which you have mixed a little of your own blood.
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