Vladimir Nabokov, Volume I (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Boyd
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1899-1940
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris
- Principal Characters: Vladimir Vladimirovicii Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna Nabokov, Valentina “Lyussya” Shulgin, Vera Evseevna Slonim, Ivan Lukash, Ilya Fondaminsky, Georgy Adamovich
- Genres: Criticism, 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: Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, St. Petersburg, Russia
The lives of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian writers are as fascinating as the poems and novels they wrote and as enigmatic as the nation they inhabited. Fyodor Dostoevski’s own soul was torn by the same explosive spiritual dynamics that brought the Karamazov family to murder and salvation. Leo Tolstoy’s battle against serfdom and autocracy had the epic scale of Voyna i mir (1865-1869; War and Peace, 1886). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn steeled his opposition to the Soviet state during years of government oppression as multilayered as the structure of V kruge pervom...
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