Vladimir Nabokov, Volume II (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Boyd
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1940-1977
- Setting: The United States and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Vladimir Nabokov, Véra Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Edmund Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Freedom, Language or languages, Revolutionaries, Authors or writers, Literature, Immigration or emigration, Anti-Semitism, Lectures or lecturing, Nazism or Nazis, Consciousness, Butterflies, Philanthropy or philanthropists, Empiricism
- Locales: United States, Switzerland
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990), the first volume of Brian Boyd’s massive biography, ended in May, 1940, in the port of Saint Nazaire, France, with Vladimir and Véra Nabokov and their six-year-old son Dmitri about to board the ship that would take them to America, only three weeks before German troops entered Paris. In the opening pages of his second volume, Boyd reprises that scene at Saint Nazaire as it was recalled by Nabokov himself in the last paragraph of his memoir Speak, Memory (1966; a revised version of Conclusive Evidence, 1951):
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