Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov

This is a great Russian talking of great Russians. never once fails to instruct and stimulate. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes. Lectures On Russian Literature By Vladimir Nabokov On Sale: Decem17.99 Now: 14.39 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography, Revised Lectures on Russian Literature A53 According to Fredson Bowers’ introduction, Lectures on Russian Literature preserves all that has come down to us from Nabokov’s own manuscripts of the lectures on Russian authors given in the Cornell Russian Literature in Translation courses. This volume also includes Nabokov’s lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on nineteenth-century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol’s Dead Souls and “The Overcoat” Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons Maxim Gorky’s “On the Rafts” Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov and several works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.

The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.

Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov