Masters of European Prose
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Masters of European Prose
29.99 €
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, but also cast Dickens, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce in a new light. These lectures also provided a remarkable insight into Nabokov's own literary legacy. Reading his works, which combine biographical essays with detailed analyses and original interpretations of famous works, became a prerequisite for penetrating the creative mind of a brilliant writer and the very essence of what is called literary art.
This edition, for the first time, reproduces a complete translation of Nabokov's lectures on the masters of European prose, complete with accompanying and facsimile materials. In addition to F. Bowers's notes, the edition includes the editor's commentary.
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, but also cast Dickens, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce in a new light. These lectures also provided a remarkable insight into Nabokov's own literary legacy. Reading his works, which combine biographical essays with detailed analyses and original interpretations of famous works, became a prerequisite for penetrating the creative mind of a brilliant writer and the very essence of what is called literary art.
This edition, for the first time, reproduces a complete translation of Nabokov's lectures on the masters of European prose, complete with accompanying and facsimile materials. In addition to F. Bowers's notes, the edition includes the editor's commentary.
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