Description: Further DetailsTitle: Stalking NabokovCondition: NewEAN: 9780231158572ISBN: 9780231158572Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/25/2013Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Brian BoydLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0231158572Description: At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by Boyd since completing the biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations. Boyd confronts Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd offers new ways of reading Nabokov's best English-language works: Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, and he discloses otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections, Boyd recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including materials still awaiting publication.The first to focus on Nabokov's metaphysics, Boyd cautions against their being used as the key to unlock all of the author's secrets, showing instead the many other rooms in Nabokov's castle of fiction that need exploring, such as his humor, narrative invention, and psychological insight into characters and readers alike. Appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever the author's multifaceted genius.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Stalking Nabokov
Title: Stalking Nabokov
EAN: 9780231158572
ISBN: 9780231158572
Release Date: 06/25/2013
Release Year: 2013
ISBN-10: 0231158572
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Stalking Nabokov
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: European / General, General, American / General, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publication Year: 2013
Item Weight: 22.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Brian Boyd
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
