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In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading __Lolita__, __Pale Fire__, __Ada or Ardor__, and the unparalleled autobiography, __Speak, Memory__, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius. At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, __Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years__ (1990) and __Vl

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Author

Boyd, Brian

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231158572

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Language Learning

Rating

3.89 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14