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Yuri Leving's ''Keys to The Gift'' systematizes in a succinct and coherent way the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel ''The Gift'' (1934-1939) from passing notes in the private correspondence to scholarly articles, accumulated during the seventy years since its first appearance in the print. Its first part, The Novel, outlines the basic properties of ''The Gift'': the plot, characters, style, and motifs, as well as reconstructs an internal chronology of the novel. The second part of the monograph, The Text, describes the creation of the novel and the history of its publication, public and critical reaction, challenges of the English translation, as well as its post-Soviet reception. Besides annotations to all five chapters of ''The Gift'', the Commentary provides insights into problems of paleography featuring unique textological analysis of The Gift based on the author's study of the archival copy of the manuscript. ... Read more

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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books

Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy.

Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from his memoir Speak, Memory. ... Read more

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Johnson's book is a major and innovative contribution toNabokov scholarship. Games in Nabokov, in addition to the sheer funand delight that they introduce into his novels, have a "serious"purpose. These 12 essays by a well-known Nabokov scholar are dividedinto three thematic groups: letters and word games, problems andmazes, and the riddle of the universe. Johnson describes Nabokov asMan of Letters, Anagrammist, Literary Chess Problemist, Maze Maker,Literary Cosmologist, and Gnostic Seeker, and shows that the gamesthat play such a large role in Nabokov's work are part of theintricate web of allusion, coincidence and pattern that mark thepresence of the other world in his novels. ... Read more

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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."

-----Vladimir Nabokov

Introduction
Early Life and Career
Russia
Emigration
In Berlin
America
Montreux
Writings
Nabokov's Synesthesia
Entomology
Chess Problems
Politics
Influence
Vladimir Nabokov’s Works
Mary
King, Queen, Knave
The Defense
The Eye
Glory
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Bend Sinister
Lolita
Pnin
Pale Fire
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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This study relates Nabokov's work to his life and times and considers the importance of his Russian background and American adoption. Focusing particularly on the novels of his American period, Sharpe provides a lively and perceptive introduction to the wider debates surrounding his writing. ... Read more