Nabokov S Butterflies

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0807085405

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Nabokov's Butterflies by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kurt Johnson,Steven L. Coates
Publisher : Schaum's Outline Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0071373306

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Nabokov's Blues by Kurt Johnson,Steven L. Coates Pdf

During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.

Author : Alan Levy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504023313

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Vladimir Nabokov by Alan Levy Pdf

The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.

Author : R. A. Gekoski
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786714522

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Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by R. A. Gekoski Pdf

A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov,Brian Boyd,Robert Michael Pyle,Dmitri Nabokov
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807085421

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Nabokov's Butterflies by Vladimir Nabokov,Brian Boyd,Robert Michael Pyle,Dmitri Nabokov Pdf

Unpublished and Uncollected WritingsEdited and Annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael PyleNew Translations from the Russian by Dmitri NabokovLiterature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an émigré in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery.Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novels, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lectures, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field.Here for the first time, newly translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, is Nabokov's most intense amalgam of literature and Lepidoptera, his forty-page afterword to The Gift-cut short by his switch from Russian to English and from Europe to America at the midpoint of his life-an immensely rich and revealing work. Here too are scores of fascinating letters to his mother, wife, and colleagues; the sui generis scientific articles; "The Admirable Anglewing," an intriguing entomological tale; a taste of the prodigious work he expended on his ultimately unrealized Butterflies of Europe; and ten poems newly translated from the original Russian.Nabokov's Butterflies is a major literary event: not only in chronological scope but also in genre no other volume of Nabokov's writing encompasses such variety. It is, as Dmitri Nabokov claims, a book that "would have warmed the cockles of Father's heart," and a must-have for admirers of the great novelist and all who appreciate the joys of Lepidoptera.

Author : Stephen Hardwick Blackwell,Kurt Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300194555

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Fine Lines by Stephen Hardwick Blackwell,Kurt Johnson Pdf

This volume reproduces 154 of Russian-American novelist and entomologist Vladimir Nabokov's drawings, few of which have ever been seen in public, and presents essays by ten leading scientists and Nabokov scholars. The contributors underscore the significance of Nabokov's drawings as scientific documents, evaluate his visionary contributions to evolutionary biology and systematics, and offer insights into his unique artistic perception and creativity. Showcasing color drawings of butterflies' distinctive markings and anatomy as well, all as part of his work at the American Museum of Natural History and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Author : Sarah Funke,Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121771807

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Véra's Butterflies by Sarah Funke,Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm) Pdf

Author : José Manuel Prieto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199386

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Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire by José Manuel Prieto Pdf

Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : OCLC:1323120627

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Nabokov's Butterflies by Robert Michael Pyle Pdf

Author : Gavriel Shapiro
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801439094

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Nabokov at Cornell by Gavriel Shapiro Pdf

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Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632860866

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Nabokov in America by Robert Roper Pdf

A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America. The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined-as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land. Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer's life with charm and insight- covering Nabokov's critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than 200,000 miles as he indulged his other passion: butterfly collecting. Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov's work: on two-lane highways and in late-'40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov's seductive familiarity with the American mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature, in Nabokov's broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading Roper, we feel anew the mountain breezes and the miles logged, the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov's most beloved books.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. The novel chronicles Humbert's obsession with Lolita and his manipulative and ultimately abusive relationship with her as they travel across the United States. Nabokov's writing in "Lolita" is characterized by its lyrical prose, intricate wordplay, and dark humor, which serves to both captivate and unsettle the reader. Despite its disturbing subject matter, "Lolita" is celebrated for its literary brilliance and has been praised for its exploration of themes such as desire, obsession, and the corruption of innocence. Nabokov challenges readers to confront their own moral judgments and perceptions of love and sexuality through Humbert's unreliable narration. "Lolita" has sparked intense debate and controversy since its publication due to its portrayal of taboo subjects, including pedophilia. However, it's also widely regarded as a masterpiece of literature and continues to be studied and analyzed for its complex narrative structure and psychological depth.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691196909

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Insomniac Dreams by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.

Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593192177

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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli Pdf

A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time One of the world’s most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his singular perspective on the cosmos. This new collection of essays reveals a curious intellect always on the move. Rovelli invites us on an accessible and enlightening voyage through science, literature, philosophy, and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, this journey ranges widely across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov’s lepidopterology to Dante’s cosmology, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism, from the future of physics to the power of uncertainty. Charming, pithy, and elegant, this book is the perfect gateway to the universe of one of the most influential minds of our age.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101873700

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Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd Pdf

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.