Authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Simon Karlinsky, Fredson Bowers (Editor), Simon Karlinsky
ISBN-13: 9780156027762, ISBN-10: 0156027763
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Readers of Vladimir Nabokov's books might be slightly uncomfortable with them, were they not so awe-inspiring. Nabokov had a penchant for writing about the tragic and the taboo; but his erudite, inventive approach to narration -- buttressed by his formidable academic and cultural intellect -- made him a literary legend.
The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians” (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations.