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After discussing Nabokovs life and themes the author chronologically examines his short stories and novels considering poems plays critical works and minor novels only as they relate to more important writings
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Midway through the last century Lolita burst on the literary scenea Russian exiles extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World The scandal provoked by the novels subjectthe sexual passion of a middleaged European for a twelveyearold American girlwas quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers scholars and critics around the world This casebook gathers together an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays about Lolita The essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader topics and cultural implications including the novels relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted from it
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Midway through last century Lolita burst on the literary scenea Russian exiles extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World The scandal provoked by the novels subjectthe sexual passion of a middleaged European for a twelveyearold American girlwas quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers scholars and critics around the world This casebook gathers together an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays The essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader issues and cultural implications including the novels relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted from it
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What should Lolita look like The question has dogged bookcover designers since 1955 when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper The heroine of Vladimir Nabokovs classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heartshaped glassesa deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life from fashion to filmLolita The Story of a Cover Girl Vladimir Nabokovs 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 books jacket while graphicdesign critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers Youll 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 BlackwellThrough 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 centuryand offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books Youll never look at Lolita the same way again
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One of 2000 copies A booksellers catalogue offering first editions by Nabokov inscribed to his wife Full page color photographs throughout A three page preface from their son Dmitri is loosely inserted A Gleen Horowitz price list is also loosely inserted 267 4 stiff paper wrappers 8vo
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A digital copy of Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokovs Scientific Art by Blackwell Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Fictitious Biographies Vladimir Nabokov s sold for 62.97 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Format Hardcover Subject U S Literature Reference 20th Century American Literature Post WWII Literary Criticism Literary Criticism U S Fiction Prose Literature General Miscellaneous 20th Century Russian Literature Literary Criticism Publisher De Gruyter
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The first comprehensive interdisciplinary accounting of Nabokovs scientific work its significance in his artistry and his contribution to evolutionary theory This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokovs longneglected contributions as a scientist Although his literary achievements are renowned until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many Nabokov created well over 1000 technical illustrations of the anatomical structures of butterflies seeking to understand the evolutionary diversity of small butterflies called Blues But only lately have scientists confirmed his meticulous research and vindicated his surprising hypotheses nbsp This volume reproduces 154 of Nabokovs drawings few of which have ever been seen in public and presents essays by ten leading scientists and Nabokov specialists The contributors underscore the significance of Nabokovs drawings as scientific documents evaluate his visionary contributions to evolutionary biology and systematics and offer insights into his unique artistic perception and creativity
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What should Lolita look like The question has dogged bookcover designers since 1955 when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper The heroine of Vladimir Nabokovs classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heartshaped glassesa deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life from fashion to filmLolita The Story of a Cover Girl Vladimir Nabokovs 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 books jacket while graphicdesign critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers Youll 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 BlackwellThrough 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 centuryand offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books Youll never look at Lolita the same way again
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The first comprehensive interdisciplinary accounting of Nabokovs scientific work its significance in his artistry and his contribution to evolutionary theory This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokovs longneglected contributions as a scientist Although his literary achievements are renowned until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many Nabokov created well over 1000 technical illustrations of the anatomical structures of butterflies seeking to understand the evolutionary diversity of small butterflies called Blues But only lately have scientists confirmed his meticulous research and vindicated his surprising hypotheses nbsp This volume reproduces 154 of Nabokovs drawings few of which have ever been seen in public and presents essays by ten leading scientists and Nabokov specialists The contributors underscore the significance of Nabokovs drawings as scientific documents evaluate his visionary contributions to evolutionary biology and systematics and offer insights into his unique artistic perception and creativity
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Midway through last century Lolita burst on the literary scenea Russian exiles extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World The scandal provoked by the novels subjectthe sexual passion of a middleaged European for a twelveyearold American girlwas quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers scholars and critics around the world This casebook gathers together an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays The essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader issues and cultural implications including the novels relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted from it
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A collection of six critical essays on Faulkners Light in August arranged in chronological order of their original publication
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Collected Poems The Penguin Vladimir sold at 64.99 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire with an extensive number of poems never before in English newly translated from the Russian by his son Dmitri NabokovThese masterly poems span the decades of Nabokovs career from Music written in 1914 and probably Nabokovs first recorded poem to the short playful To Vera composed in 1974 The University Poem one of Nabokovs major poetic works is here in English for the first time Included too are the surreally comic A Literary Dinner Eve the humorous An Evening of Russian Poetry and Tolstoy as well as verse written on America lepidoptery sport love and Nabokovs Russian homelandPart of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokovs work in Penguin Classics
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Nabokovs dream diary published for the first timeand placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14 1964 Vladimir Nabokov a lifelong insomniac began a curious experiment Over the next eighty days immediately upon waking he wrote down his dreams following the instructions he found in An Experiment with Time by the British philosopher John Dunne The purpose was to test the theory that time may go in reverse so that paradoxically a later event may generate an earlier dream The resultpublished here for the first timeis a fascinating diary in which Nabokov recorded sixtyfour dreams and subsequent daytime episodes on 118 index cards which afford a rare glimpse of the artist at his most private More than an odd biographical footnote the experiment grew out of Nabokovs passionate interest in the mystery of time which influenced many of his novels including the late masterpiece AdaInsomniac Dreams edited by leading Nabokov authority Gennady Barabtarlo presents the text of Nabokovs dream experiment illustrated with a selection of his original index cards and provides rich annotations and analysis that put them in the context of his life and writings The book also includes previously unpublished records of Nabokovs dreams from his letters and notebooks and shows important connections between his fiction and private writings on dreams and time
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A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokovs life and worksnotablynbspPale FirenbspandnbspLolitabringing new insight into one of the twentiethnbspcenturys most enigmatic authorsNovelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many criticsUsing information from newlydeclassified intelligence files and recovered military history journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for arts sake Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fictionhistory that has gone unnoticed for decades Nabokov emerges as a kind of documentary conjurer spending the most productive decades of his career recording a saga of forgotten concentration camps and searing bigotry from World War I to the Gulag and the Holocaust Lolita surrenders Humbert Humberts secret identity and reveals a Nabokov appalled by American antiSemitism The lunatic narrator of Pale Fire recalls Russian tragedies that once haunted the world From Tsarist courts to Nazi film sets from CIA front organizations to wartime Casablanca the story of Nabokovs family is the story of his centuryand both are woven inextricably into his fiction
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In this wry judiciously balanced and thoroughly engaging book Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who in the estimate of many served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin She offers astute comments on Nabokovs fictional process in creating Timofey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and longstanding riddles in Pnin and its history Galya Diment is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Thomas L amp Margo G Wyckoff Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Washington Seattle She is the author most recently of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury 2011
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Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 18991977 is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century In Vladimir Nabokov Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of the life and works of the writer from his childhood and earliest stories in prerevolutionary Russia to The Original of Lauraa novel written almost entirely on index cards published for the first time in 2009 perhaps against Nabokovs wishesnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp This literary biography investigates the authors poetry and prose in both Russian and English and examines the relationship between Nabokovs extraordinary erudition and the themes that recur throughout his worksnbsp His expertise as a specialist in butterflies complemented his wide knowledge of Russian and Western European culture philosophy and history and informed the themes of transformation and transcendence that dominate his work Wyllie traces his lifelong preoccupations with time memory and mortality across both his Russian and English works and she illuminates his distinctive through detailed analysis of his major novels Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose style alongside Nabokovs own autobiography letters and critical writingsas well as the only recentlypublished The Original of Laurain order to create a complete and updated picture of the writer in the context of his worksnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp Vladimir Nabokov presents a fascinating portrait of one of the twentieth centurys most eclectic prolific and controversial authors It is an essential read for fans of Nabokov and scholars of twentieth century English and Russian literature
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In this collection of interviews articles and editorials Nabokov ranges over his life art education politics literature movies and modern times among other subjectsStrong Opinions offers his trenchant witty and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita
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