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Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John UpdikeThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced ...

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade, an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote, a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"-the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate-which p...

Part of a series, this final novel deals with the childhood advice given to the Russian born author by his aunt, who then emigrates to England, to Paris, to Germany and then to the US.

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When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, "The Original of Laura." But the manuscript was never destroyed and three decades later, the novelist's son, Dmitri, agreed to allow publication of the narrative.

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, reissued in 1959 to wide critical acclaim and now relaunched again, with an appreciative introduction by Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Michael Dirda. This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to pen...

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The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he...

Nabokov non fu solo l'autore di romanzi fra i più noti del Novecento, dal "Dono" a "Lolita", ma anche un magistrale creatore di racconti. Di tale versante della sua attività, ancora in gran parte da scoprire, questa vasta silloge, che integra idealmente "La veneziana", offre un panorama completo, giacché raduna in una sequenza rigorosamente cronologica i testi che Nabokov scrisse fra il 1921 e il 1940 e ordinò poi in quattro celebri raccolte: ...

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell,...

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir's letters to Véra chronicle a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, and memorable. At ...

Con la "particolare nitidezza" di qualcosa che si vede dall'altro capo di un telescopio, minuscolo ma provvisto dello smalto allucinatorio di una decalcomania, Nabokov ha lasciato affiorare dalle pagine di questo libro la sua fanciullezza nella "Russia leggendaria" precedente alla Rivoluzione, troppo perfetta e troppo felice per non essere condannata a un dileguamento istantaneo e totale, sospingendo poi il ricordo fino all'apparizione dello "...

In una sequenza di vetrine, pozzanghere, occhiali e specchi, da quelli che riflettono un'identità molteplice a quelli che evidenziano le deformità della pelle, Nabokov seziona e riassume tre figure e tre gradi della coscienza, tre stadi della percezione di sé e degli altri: dal malessere profondo e ottundente, alla gretta volgarità con il suo lessico primitivo, fino a una più consapevole, ma sempre riviata ricerca della felicità. Questo romanz...

En un solo volumen, la edición definitiva de los cuentos de Vladimir Nabokov.Vladimir Nabokov, aunque fundamentalmente conocido por su obra maestra, la novela Lolita (1955), fue también un prolífico autor de narrativa breve. La producción en este ámbito se extiende a lo largo de más de cuarenta años de trayectoria literaria. Sus Cuentos completos son, pues, una mirilla a la panorámica del proceso de maduración del autor ruso.Desde sus primeros...

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