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Nabokov at Cornell by Gavriel Shapiro (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed__Lolita__and__Pnin__and conceived Pale Fire. During his Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of his autobiography,__Conclusive Evidence__, and__Drugie Berega__, and prepared annotated translations of two pinnacles of Russian literature:__The Song of Igor's Campaign__and__Eugene Onegin__. While at Cornell, Nabokov also delivered his highly acclaimed lectures on Russian and West European literature.__Nabokov at Cornell__contains twenty-five chapters by the leading experts on Nabokov. Their subjects range widely from Nabokov's poetry to his prose, from his original fiction to translation and literary scholarship, from literature to visual art, and from the humanities to natural science. The book concludes with a reminiscence of the family's life in Ithaca by Nabokov's son, Dmitri.**Contributors:**Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Yale University; Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee; Brian Boyd, University of Aukland; Clarence F. Brown, Princeton University; Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia; Sergei Davydo

Who reads Nabokov at Cornell?

Author

Gavriel Shapiro (ed.)

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801439094

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Memoir