Imagining Nabokov
Russia Between Art and Politics
Khrushcheva, Nina L.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Vladimir Nabokovs Western choicehis exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolutionallowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Vladimir Nabokovs Western choicehis exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolutionallowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (18991977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a Russian living in America, finds in Nabokovs novels a useful guide for Russias integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokovs Western characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier.
In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging ones own happy destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, Khrushcheva contends, and Nabokovs work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A very lively, funny, and informed piece of work, full of interesting opinions about Russia, the West, individual writers, and various national literatures."-Michael Wood, Princeton University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300108869
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300108866
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2007027403
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 233
Paper Weight (lb): 0.90 lb
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