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portada lectures on russian literature (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.4 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN
0156027763
ISBN13
9780156027762

lectures on russian literature (in English)

Vladimir Nabokov (Author) · Mariner Books · Paperback

lectures on russian literature (in English) - Vladimir Nabokov

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The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on nineteenth-century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol's Dead Souls and "The Overcoat"; Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorky's "On the Rafts"; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. This volume also includes Nabokov's lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov's original notes. "This volume . . . never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians."--Anthony Burgess Introduction by Fredson Bowers
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov nació en San Petersburgo en el seno de una familia de la aristocracia en 1899, pero su trayectoria familiar primero, y luego sus inquietudes personales, lo llevaron a Alemania, Inglaterra, Francia y Estados Unidos, donde inició una brillante carrera como poeta, novelista, crítico y traductor, a la vez que enseñaba Literatura en varias universidades de prestigio. Sus novelas Mary (1926), Rey, dama, valet (1928), La defensa (1930), Gloria (1932), Risa en la oscuridad (1933), Desesperación y La dádiva (ambas de 1934), Invitado a una decapitación (1938), El ojo (1937), El hechicero (1939), La verdadera vida de Sebastián Knight (1941) y Ultima Thule (1942) precedieron el éxito monumental de Lolita (1955) que le permitió abandonar la enseñanza y consagrarse por entero a su vocación de escritor. Después llegaron Pnin (1957), Pálido fuego (1962), Ada o el ardor (1969), Cosas transparentes (1972), ¡Mira los arlequines! (1974). Entre sus obras de no ficción cabe destacar su autobiografía Habla, memoria (1951) y ensayos literarios como Nikolai Gögol (1944) o sus cursos de literatura europea, sobre el Quijote o sobre la literatura rusa. En 1961 se trasladó a Suiza, donde murió en 1977. En 2009, su hijo Dmitri accedió a la publicación de su novela inacabada, El original de Laura.
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