MACMILLAN Nabokov's World: Volume 1: The Shape of Nabokov's World (Studies in Russia and East Europe)

Product Description Nabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Here fourteen original essays by an international grouping of leading Nabokov specialists, scholars prominent in other fields, offer new insights into formative influences on his thought and the dominant agencies that structure his writing: emigration, the 'two worlds' theme and multilingualism. Review 'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown '...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well.' - Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review About the Author VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV Professor of Russian Literature, Yale University STEPHEN H. BLACKWELL Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland MAURICE COUTURIER Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Nice, France PAUL BENEDICT GRANT Graduate Student, University of Cambridge D. BARTON JOHNSON Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of California, Santa Barbara ZORAN KUZMANOVICH Lecturer, Davidson College and Editor of Nabokov Studies CHARLES LOCK Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen CHARLES NICHOL Professor of English and Humanities, Indiana State University OLGA SKONECHNAIA Commentator and Translator of Nabokov's works LEONA TOKER Professor of English Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem DIETER E. ZIMMER Journalist, Translator and Writer, Hamburg ZINOVY ZINIK Novelist, Critic and Broadcaster