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Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays
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Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays Hardcover - 2011

by Brian Boyd

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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 individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.</p> Top edge has library withdrawal stamp. No other evidence of this having been a library book. Good condition all around.
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  • Title Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays
  • Author Brian Boyd
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; T
  • Condition Used - Ex-Library
  • Pages 452
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date November 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 269344
  • ISBN 9780231158565 / 0231158564
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, Russian - 20th century, Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011008348
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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About the author

Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland. His work on American, Brazilian, English, Greek, Irish, New Zealand, and Russian literature, from epics to comics, has appeared in seventeen languages and has won awards on four continents. He is the author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, books on Pale Fire and Ada, and the enormous AdaOnline. He has edited Nabokov's English fiction, autobiography, butterfly writings, and verse translations and is now editing a collection of the author's letters to his wife. Also known for his evolutionary and cognitive work, he is the author of On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction and the forthcoming Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets and is coeditor of Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. He is currently working on a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper.

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