1990, ISBN: 9780691024707

No binding This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and… More...

No binding This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World Warnbsp; II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, NabokovNr.s education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the United States. This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of NabokovNr.s Russian years and Russian worlds, prerevolutionary and migr.In the course of his ten yearsNr. work on the biography, Boyd traveled along NabokovNr.s trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length NabokovNr.s family and scores of his friends and associates.For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on NabokovNr.s life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all NabokovNr.s works, published and unpublished.Boyd investigates NabokovNr.s relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy and his innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between NabokovNr.s life and the themes and subjects of hisnbsp; art. Versand D: 3,91 EUR Englisch, [PU:Princeton University Press]<

1993, ISBN: 0691024707

[EAN: 9780691024707], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton Univ Pr], ABE PM BJ2, Coffee stain to top foredge corner affecting the last two hundred pages but the text is clean, and cre… More...

[EAN: 9780691024707], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton Univ Pr], ABE PM BJ2, Coffee stain to top foredge corner affecting the last two hundred pages but the text is clean, and crease marks on paper wraps, square binding. ISBN 0691024707, Books<