Lectures on Foreign Literature

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In the «Lectures on Foreign Literature», first published in 1980, the greatest Russian-American writer of the 20th century, Vladimir Nabokov, presented himself to his admirers, who primarily knew him as a virtuoso wordsmith, in other, sometimes unexpected facets: a thoughtful... reader, a perceptive, meticulous, and at the same time, very biased researcher, a temperamental and demanding educator. The book is based on a lecture course «Masters of European Prose», prepared for students at Cornell University, where the writer taught in the 1940s and 1950s. On the pages of this volume, Nabokov-the-lecturer gives his audience an excellent lesson in «close reading» of the works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce.

Author: НАБОКОВ В.

Printhouse: Azbuka

Series: Non-Fiction. Big Books

Age restrictions: 16

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785389213494

Number of pages: 480

Size: 140х210 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 577 g

ID: 1182910

In the «Lectures on Foreign Literature», first published in 1980, the greatest Russian-American writer of the 20th century, Vladimir Nabokov, presented himself to his admirers, who primarily knew him as a virtuoso wordsmith, in other, sometimes unexpected facets: a thoughtful reader, a perceptive, meticulous, and at the same time, very biased researcher, a temperamental and demanding educator. The book is based on a lecture course «Masters of European Prose», prepared for students at Cornell University, where the writer taught in the 1940s and 1950s. On the pages of this volume, Nabokov-the-lecturer gives his audience an excellent lesson in «close reading» of the works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce.

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