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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Martin Amis
Visiting Mrs Nabokov Book PDF

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307777799

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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov by Martin Amis Pdf

A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike

Visiting Mrs Nabokov

Martin Amis,Géraldine Koff D'Amico
Visiting Mrs Nabokov Book PDF

Author : Martin Amis,Géraldine Koff D'Amico
Publisher : Christian Bourgois Editeur
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2267013908

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" Je relis avec circonspection ces articles qui me font remonter dans le temps : j'y entrevois un foisonnement de mondes altérés ou disparus, dont ceux de mes jeunes et de mes très jeunes années. Les choses changent. Graham Greene est mort. Véra Nabokov est morte. Salman Rushdie est toujours en vie mais toujours caché. La dissuasion nucléaire est morte et enterrée. Asimov est mort. On ne fait même plus attention aux seins nus sur les plages. Je ne circule plus autant qu'avant. J'ai récemment lu une critique d'un recueil du même genre. Elle le comparait à une " braderie à domicile " où l'auteur se débarrassait de ses vieilleries littéraires dans un cadre informel. Que mes lecteurs veuillent bien me croire : je leur promets que j'ai bien éliminé, autant que j'ai gardé. " Martin Amis, 1993.

Father and Son

Gavin Keulks
Father and Son Book PDF

Author : Gavin Keulks
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299192143

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Father and Son by Gavin Keulks Pdf

An innovative study of two of England’s most popular, controversial, and influential writers, Father and Son breaks new ground in examining the relationship between Kingsley Amis and his son, Martin Amis. Through intertextual readings of their essays and novels, Gavin Keulks examines how the Amises’ work negotiated the boundaries of their personal relationship while claiming territory in the literary debate between mimesis and modernist aesthetics. Theirs was a battle over the nature of reality itself, a twentieth-century realism war conducted by loving family members and rival, antithetical writers. Keulks argues that the Amises’ relationship functioned as a source of literary inspiration and that their work illuminates many of the structural and stylistic shifts that have characterized the British novel since 1950.

Vintage Amis

Martin Amis
Vintage Amis Book PDF

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429933

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Vintage Amis by Martin Amis Pdf

A perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest modern writers who is equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography. “Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.”—The Seattle Times Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. Vintage Amis displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir, Experience; the “Horrorday” chapter from London Fields; a vignette from his novel Money; the stories “State of England,” “Insight at Flam Lake,” and “Coincidence of the Arts”; and the essays “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov,” “Phantom of the Opera.” Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Porno’s Last Summer.”

Atlantic Republic

Paul Giles
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Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191525667

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Atlantic Republic by Paul Giles Pdf

Atlantic Republic traces the legacy of the United States both as a place and as an idea in the work of English writers from 1776 to the present day. Seeing the disputes of the Reformation as a precursor to this transatlantic divide, it argues that America has operated since the Revolution as a focal point for various traditions of dissent within English culture. By ranging over writers from Richard Price and Susanna Rowson in the 1790s to Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book argues that America haunts the English literary tradition as a parallel space where ideology and aesthetics are configured differently. Consequently, it suggests, many of the key episodes in British history-parliamentary reform in the 1830s, the imperial designs of the Victorian era, the twentieth-century conflict with fascism, the advance of globalization since 1980-have been shaped by implicit dialogues with American cultural models. Rather than simply reinforcing the benign myth of a 'special relationship', Paul Giles considers how various English writers over the past 200 years have engaged with America for various complicated reasons: its promise of political republicanism (Byron, Mary Shelley); its emphasis on religious disestablishment (Clough, Gissing); its prospect of pastoral regeneration (Ruxton, Lawrence); its vision of scientific futurism (Huxley, Ballard). The book also analyses the complex cultural relations between Britain and the United States around the time of the Second World War, suggesting that writers such as Wodehouse, Isherwood, and Auden understood the United States and Germany to offer alternative versions of the kind of technological modernity that appeared equally hostile to traditional forms of English culture. The book ends with a consideration of ways in which the canon of English literature might appear in a different light if seen from a transnational rather than a familiar national perspective.

Great World Writers

Patrick M. O'Neil
Great World Writers Book PDF

Author : Patrick M. O'Neil
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761474757

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Great World Writers by Patrick M. O'Neil Pdf

This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works.

The War Against Cliche

Martin Amis
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Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307368287

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The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Pdf

Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the preeminent novelist-critic of his generation. Always entertaining, with a razor-sharp wit and inimitable judgment, he expounds on a dazzling range of topics from chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, to Andy Warhol, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. The very best of his essays and reviews from the past twenty-five years are brought together in this substantial and wide-ranging collection, including pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Malcolm Lowry, Nabokov, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V.S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton,V.S. Pritchett and John Updike.

Vera

Stacy Schiff
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Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375755349

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Vera by Stacy Schiff Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME “Monumental.”—The Boston Globe “Utterly romantic.”—New York magazine “Deeply moving.”—The Seattle Times Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Vladimir Nabokov

M. Glynn
Vladimir Nabokov Book PDF

Author : M. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137109071

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Vladimir Nabokov by M. Glynn Pdf

Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature

Ben Dhooge,Jürgen Pieters
Vladimir Nabokov s Lectures on Literature Book PDF

Author : Ben Dhooge,Jürgen Pieters
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004352872

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature by Ben Dhooge,Jürgen Pieters Pdf

These essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and shed new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.

Vladimir Nabokov

D. Rampton
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Author : D. Rampton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137292025

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Vladimir Nabokov by D. Rampton Pdf

A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.

Nabokov in America

Robert Roper
Nabokov in America Book PDF

Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

British Fiction and the Cold War

A. Hammond
British Fiction and the Cold War Book PDF

Author : A. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137274854

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British Fiction and the Cold War by A. Hammond Pdf

This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age.

The Art of Fiction

David Lodge
The Art of Fiction Book PDF

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion

Francis Wheen
Lord Gnome s Literary Companion Book PDF

Author : Francis Wheen
Publisher : Verso
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1859840450

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Lord Gnome's Literary Companion by Francis Wheen Pdf

His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow ... at about 9 pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ... skipping expertly through one book after another and laying each one down with the comment, 'God, what tripe!' ... Then suddenly he will snap into it. All the stale old phrases--'a book that no one should miss', 'something memorable on every page'--jump into their places like iron filings obeying the magnet. Thus did George Orwell, writing forty years ago in Confessions of a Book Reviewer, describe the labours of a typical literary hack. Precious little has changed over the intervening decades; the servility of the satirical magazine Private Eye. Lord Gnome's Literary Companion assembles, in thematic order, the best of these columns to present an astringent, rude and funny survey of publishers and the published.