Lectures on Literature by Nabokov, Vladimir

ISBN: 0156027755

Author: Nabokov, Vladimir

Condition: new

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 Nabokovs teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.This volume collects Nabokovs famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickenss Bleak House, Gustav Flauberts Madame Bovary, Marcel Prousts The Walk by Swanns Place, Robert Louis Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other works.Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers.