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__The Feud__In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning him book reviews forengineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came the worldwide best-selling noveland the tables were turned. Suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. The feud finally erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel,Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tongs in. Nabokov counterattacked. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters flew, until the narcissism of small differences reduced their friendship to ashes.Alex Beam has fashioned this clash of literary titans into a delightful and irresistible book--a comic contretemps of a very high order and a poignant demonstration of the fragility of even the deepest of friendships.__(With black-and-white illustr

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Author

Alex Beam; 3M Company

Publisher

Pantheon Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101870235

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13