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Author : Gavriel Shapiro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472119189
A careful and intimate study on the ways Nabokov’s world perception and fictional universe were influenced by his father
Author : Galya Diment
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089925
H. G. Wells and All Things Russian is a fertile terrain for research and this volume will be the first to devote itself entirely to the theme. Wells was an astute student of Russian literature, culture and history, and the Russians, in turn, became eager students of Wells’s views and works. During the Soviet years, in fact, no significant foreign author was safer for Soviet critics to praise than H. G. Wells. The reason was obvious. He had met – and largely approved of – Lenin, was a close friend of the Soviet literary giant Maxim Gorky and, in general, expressed much respect for Russia’s evolving Communist experiment, even after it fell into Stalin’s hands. While Wells’s attitude towards the Soviet Union was, nevertheless, often ambivalent, there is definitely nothing ambiguous about the tremendous influence his works had on Russian literary and cultural life.
Author : Gerard Vries
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618119506
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov’s infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov’s brother Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary references and allusions, and by disregarding the deceptive guiding by the narrator (Sebastian’s half-brother), this moving story about Sebastian’s silent love becomes brightly visible.
Author : Tim Harte
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299327705
The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary habits. In Russia, this ethos soon became a key facet of the Bolsheviks' shared vision for the future. In the aftermath of the revolution, glorification of exercise persevered, pointing the way toward a stronger, healthier populace and a vibrant Socialist society. With interdisciplinary analysis of literature, painting, and film, Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! traces how physical fitness had an even broader impact on culture and ideology in the Soviet Union than previously realized. From prerevolutionary writers and painters glorifying popular circus wrestlers to Soviet photographers capturing unprecedented athleticism as a means of satisfying their aesthetic ideals, the nation's artists embraced sports in profound, inventive ways. Though athletics were used for doctrinaire purposes, Tim Harte demonstrates that at their core, they remained playful, joyous physical activities capable of stirring imaginations and transforming everyday realities.
Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443863742
On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind not only conjoins two seemingly divergent authors but also takes on the larger picture of libertarian trends and ideologies. These timely topics further intermingle with Bell-Villada’s own conflicted relationship – personal, cultural, satirical, literary – to the “odd pair” and their ways of thinking. The inclusion of Louis Begley’s essay adds yet another dimension to this unique, wide-ranging meditation on art and politics, history and memory.
Author : Barbara Straumann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748636471
This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.
Author : J. E. Rivers,Charles Nicol
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477302880
In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which “twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series.” The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov’s life—his youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerland—are now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both explores and symbolizes. This is the first collection of essays to examine all five arcs of Nabokov’s creative life through close analyses of representative works. The essays cast new light on works both famous and neglected and place these works against the backgrounds of Nabokov’s career as a whole and modern literature in general. Nabokov analyzes his own artistry in his “Postscript to the Russian Edition of Lolita,” presented here in its first English translation, and in his little-known “Notes to Ada by Vivian Darkbloom,” published now for the first time in America and keyed to the standard U.S. editions of the novel. In addition to a defense of his father’s work by Dmitri Nabokov and a portrait-interview by Alfred Appel, Jr., the volume presents a vast spectrum of critical analyses covering all Nabokov’s major novels and several important short stories. The highly original structure of the book and the fresh and often startling revelations of the essays dramatize as never before the unity and richness of Nabokov’s unique literary achievement.
Author : Alex Zwerdling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191081941
The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like Rousseau, Woolf, Orwell, Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston felt to write (and to publish) such works, when they might more easily have chosen to remain silent? Alex Zwerdling explores why each of these writers felt compelled to write them as that story can be reconstructed from personal materials available in archival collections; what internal conflicts they encountered while trying; and how each of them resisted the private and public pressures to stop themselves rather than pursuing this confessional route, against their own doubts, without a reasonable expectation that such works would be welcome in print, and eventually find an empathetic audience. Reconstructing this process in which a dubious project eventually becomes a compelling product-a "memoir" that will last-illuminates both what was at stake, and why this serially invented open form has reshaped the expectations of readers who welcomed a vital alternative to "the official story."
Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307787736
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.
Author : Michael Menager
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942493846
In this unusual biography, Michael Menager coaxes from the shadows of history ?ve women who devoted themselves to the greatness of a genius in their lives. At times the book reads like a love story, at other times an adventure, but throughout, their five lives intertwine to tell one story of selfless devotion and a greatness that doesn’t crave recognition. This book covers the lives and works of Maria Nhys (wife of Aldous Huxley), Françoise Gilot (mistress of Pablo Picasso), Véra Nabokov (wife of Vladimir Nabokov), Helen Dukas (secretary to Albert Einstein), and Isabel Burton (wife and partner of Sir Richard Burton).
Author : Dana Dragunoiu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810144019
Winner, 2022 Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Dana Dragunoiu reads Nabokov’s fictional worlds as battlegrounds between an autonomous will and heteronomous passions, demonstrating Nabokov’s insistence that genuinely moral acts occur when the will triumphs over the passions by answering the call of duty. Dragunoiu puts Nabokov’s novels into dialogue with the work of writers such as Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, and Marcel Proust; with Kantian moral philosophy; with the institution of the modern duel of honor; and with the European traditions of chivalric literature that Nabokov studied as an undergraduate at Cambridge University. This configuration of literary influences and philosophical contexts allows Dragunoiu to advance an original and provocative argument about the formation, career, and legacies of an author who viewed moral activity as an art, and for whom artistic and moral acts served as testaments to the freedom of the will.
Author : Otto Heim,Caroline Alice Wiedmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121987478
Author : Harold Wallace Ross,William Shawn,Tina Brown,David Remnick,Katharine Sergeant Angell White,Rea Irvin,Roger Angell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1948-08
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UGA:32108058265177
Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015005886851
A collection of short stories, a novel and excerpts from longer fiction, poetry, essays, and an excerpt from the autobiography of writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106012415375
This book, first published in 1951 as Conclusive evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, examines Nabokov's life and times while offering incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The gift, The real life of Sebastian Knight, and The defense.
