Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays Tapa dura - 2011

Columbia University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Columbia University Press, November 2011. Hardcover . Ex-Library/Good. <p>In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir 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 also offers new ways of reading <i>Lolita</i>, <i>Pale Fire</i>, <i>Ada or Ardor</i>, and the unparalleled autobiography, <i>Speak, Memory</i>, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and… Leer más

Columbia University Press , 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket. G/VG. Light and infrequent pencil markings. Else good. 452 pages.

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Columbia Univ Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 464 pages. 9.84x5.91x0.59 inches.

Columbia University Press, 2011-11-08. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New. At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called &quot;brilliant.&quot; 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… Leer más