Nabokov S Novels In English

Author : Lucy Maddox
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334899

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Nabokov's Novels in English by Lucy Maddox Pdf

Lucy Maddox's sensitive treatment of Nabokov's eight finished novels written in English—Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! and Pnin—approaches the novelist's work as significant fiction with its own integrity. Maddox provides the kind of discursive introduction that makes Nabokov's complex work more accessible, focusing on the relationship between the eccentric, artificial structures of the novels and their deeply traditional, humanistic themes. While the forms of the novels are idiosyncratic and often bizarre, says Maddox, the texts themselves are neither unfamiliar nor eccentric. Repeatedly the text is the frustration of desire or loss, which is for Nabokov the most agonizing and inescapable of human experiences. Maddox also traces through all eight novels the development of Nabokov's style, which she treats as a matter of both technique and vision.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787477

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. “Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.

Author : Владимир Владимирович Набоков
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015000580103

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Despair by Владимир Владимирович Набоков Pdf

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307788092

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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

Author : John Bertram,Yuri Leving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440329883

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Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl by John Bertram,Yuri Leving Pdf

What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film. Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, Jessica Helfand, and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the book's jacket, while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. You'll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, Peter Mendelsund, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow, Johanna Drucker, Leland de la Durantaye, Ellen Pifer, and Stephen Blackwell. Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design history of one of the most important novels of the 20th century--and offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811217507

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.

Author : Julia Bader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520021673

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Crystal Land; Artifice in Nabokov's English Novels by Julia Bader Pdf

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Library of America Vladimir Na
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038128685

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Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87) by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Novels 1969 1974, Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110800609

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Fictitious Biographies by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679727279

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Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787781

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Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679723400

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King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.