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Stalking Nabokov Brian Boyd
Stalking Nabokov
Brian Boyd
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 Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, 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.
464 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 8, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231158565 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 38 mm · 725 g |
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