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Hace 14 horas · While Bunin wrote about the pre-revolutionary Russia, life of the émigrés was described in Nabokov's Mary (1926) and The Gift (1938), Gazdanov's An Evening with Claire (1929) and The Specter of Alexander Wolf (1948) and Georgy Ivanov's novel Disintegration of the Atom (1938).
Hace 2 días · Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( / ˈpɪntʃɒn / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈpɪntʃən / PIN-chən; [3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.
I understand that Sebastian's novels are supposed to reflect onto the reality of the book (similar to the role of The Enchanted Hunters play in Lolita) but I've never really figured out how. This is part of why I love the book, because it's so shrouded in mystery and there's so much going on. I'm curious to know what other people made of it ...
Reviewed By Steven G. Kellman Vladimir Nabokov was not fond of biographers. He called them “psychoplagiarists” and even sued, unsuccessfully, to prevent one from publishing a book about him. There are now several biographies of Nabokov, including Brian Boyd’s two-volume cradle-to-grave account, in addition to Véra, Stacy Schiff’s Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the author’s wife.
Hace 1 día · James Salter (1925-2015) turned his experience as a fighter pilot in the Korean War into his first novel, “The Hunters,” which became a successful Hollywood film starring Robert Mitchum. Salter went on to write what he considered more significant work in fiction and film but without widespread recognition of his achievement.
Hace 5 días · I am sick of teaching,” bemoaned Vladimir Nabokov to his friend, the literary critic Edmund Wilson. Although he was teaching Russian literature at Cornell University in the 1950s, Nabokov yearned to focus on writing Lolita , a novel that would earn him monetary rewards, fame (or notoriety), and the freedom from ever having to teach a college course again.
Hace 2 días · Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: / ˌ d ɒ s t ɔɪ ˈ ɛ f s k i /, US: / ˌ d ɒ s t ə ˈ j ɛ f s k i, ˌ d ʌ s-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, romanized: Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] ⓘ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian ...
