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Argues That The Famous Russian-american Novelist, Accused Of Turning A Blind Eye To The Horrors Of History, Hid This Disturbing Information Within His Fiction. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov Witnessed The Horrors Of His Century, Escaping Revolutionary Russia Then Germany Under Hitler, And Fleeing France With His Jewish Wife And Son Just Weeks Before Paris Fell To The Nazis. He Repeatedly Faced Accusations Of Turning A Blind Eye To Human Suffering To Write Artful Tales Of Depravity. But Does One Of The Greatest Writers In The English Language Really Deserve The Label Of Amoral Aesthete Bestowed On Him By So Many Critics? Using Information From Newly-declassified Intelligence Files And Recovered Military History, Journalist Andrea Pitzer Argues That Far From Being A Proponent Of Art For Art's Sake, Vladimir Nabokov Managed To Hide Disturbing History In His Fiction--history That Has Gone Unnoticed For Decades. Nabokov Emerges As A Kind Of Documentary Conjurer, Spending The Most Productive Decades Of His Career Recording A Saga Of Forgotten Concentration Camps And Searing Bigotry, From World War I To The Gulag And The Holocaust. Lolita Surrenders Humbert Humbert's Secret Identity, And Revea
Who reads The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pitzer, Andrea
- Publisher
- New York: Pegasus Books: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781605984117
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (157 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14