Name: Mary (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 19091446
Price: 505.00 TWD
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141191478

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0141191473

ISBN13

9780141191478

Edition No.

Mary (Penguin Modern Classics)

Vladimir Nabokov (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Mary (Penguin Modern Classics) "

Nabokov begins his Strong Opinions I think like a genius I write like a distinguished author and I speak like a child. In the interviews collected here covering everything from his own burgeoning literary celebrity to Kubricks Lolita to lepidoptery he is never casual or off guard. Instead he insisted on receiving questions in advance and always carefully composed his responses. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating and these interviews letters and articles are as engaging challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.

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