Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0300194552; ISBN13: 978-0300194555. This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov’s long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov created well over 1,000 technical...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 336 p. The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary accounting of Nabokov’s scientific work, its significance in his artistry, and his contribution to evolutionary theory This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov’s long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently...
Northwestern University Press, 2016. — x, 232 p. — (Studies in Russian literature and theory). — ISBN: 978-0-8101-3314-3, 978-0-8101-3316-7. True PDF Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late English language novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of...
Article published in the «Caleidoscope» — 2013 — Vol 5 — No 2 — pp. 98-118 Vladimir Nabokov’s writings reveal an intense thinking about the irreversibility of time and the ways, if any, to resist this temporal irreversibility through art. Nabokov’s obsession with time and space is well-known among literary historians from Anglo-American, European, and Russian critical...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — xvi, 420 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4875-0299-7. True PDF The author of such global bestsellers as Lolita and Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is also one of the most controversial literary translators and translation theorists of modern time. InBetween Rhyme and Reason, Stanislav Shvabrin discloses the complexity, nuance, and contradictions...
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-55652-682-4. From Publishers Weekly: «For 50 years, the nymphet Lolita (whose real name is Dolores Haze) has existed in the collective imagination. This sleek and knowing book takes an activist approach rather than a voyeuristic one to search out, first, the sources of Nabokov's once-censored novel, and then its impact...
Gerard de Vries, D. Barton Johnson; with an essay by Liana Ashenden. Amsterdam: University Press, 2006. — 224 p. Foreword. Santa Barbara, D. Barton Johnson and Gerard de Vries The plan for the present study was first discussed during the Nabokov Centenary Festival at Cornell in 1998, itself an event that exuberantly showed the arts in which Vladimir Nabokov was interested,...
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