Vladimir Nabokov : : The Russian Years /

Vladimir Nabokov : : The Russian Years / / Brian Boyd.

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 War...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Boyd, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©1990
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (619 p.) :; 56 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Note on Dates
  • Introduction
  • PART Is RUSSIA
  • 1. Liberal Strains: The Pattern of the Past
  • 2. A World Awakening: St. Petersburg, 1899-1904
  • 3. First Revolution and First Duma: St. Petersburg, 1904-1906
  • 4. Butterflies: St. Petersburg, 1906-1910
  • 5. School: St. Petersburg, 1911-1914
  • 6. Lover and Poet: Petrograd, 1914-1917
  • 7. Foretaste of Exile: Crimea, 1917-1919
  • PART II: EUROPE
  • 8. Becoming Sirin: Cambridge, 1919-1922
  • 9. Regrouping: Berlin, 1922-1923
  • 10. Enter the Muse: Berlin, 1923-1925
  • 11. Scenes from Emigré Life: Berlin, 1925-1926
  • 12. Ideas Away: Berlin, 1927-1929
  • 13. Nabokov the Writer
  • 14. The Defense (Zashchita Luzhina)
  • 15. Negative and Positive: Berlin, 1929-1930
  • 16. Bright Desk, Dark World: Berlin, 1930-1932
  • 17. Distant Prospects: Berlin, 1932-1934
  • 18. Translation and Transformation: Berlin, 1934-1937
  • 19. On the Move: France, 1937
  • 20. The Gift (Dar)
  • 21. Destitute: France, 1938-1939
  • 22. Searching for an Exit: France, 1939-1940
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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