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Selected poems

Selected poems

Selected poems

Editorial: Knopf

Pàgines: 205

Any: 2012

EAN: 9780307593351

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Sobre el libro Selected poems de Vladimir Nabokov publicado por Knopf al 2012:

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English.

These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the short, playful “To Véra,” composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokov’s oeuvre. Included too are such poems as “Lilith”, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and “An Evening of Russian Poetry”, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls. The subjects range from the Russian Revolution to the American refrigerator, taking in on the way motel rooms, butterflies, ice-skating, love, desire, exile, loneliness, language, and poetry itself; and the poet whirls swiftly between the brilliantly painted facets of his genius, wearing masks that are, by turns, tender, demonic, sincere, self-parodying, shamanic, visionary, and ingeniously domestic.
Vladimir Nabokov

Sobre Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (Sant Petersburg, 1899-Montreux, 1977), un dels més extraordinaris escriptors del segle XX, va néixer en el si d´una acomodada família aristocràtica. En 1919, a conseqüència de la Revolució Russa, va abandonar el seu país per sempre. Després d´estudiar a Cambridge, es va instal·lar a Berlín, on va començar a publicar les seves novel·les en rus amb el pseudònim de V. Sirin. En 1937 es va traslladar a París, i en 1940 als Estats Units, on va ser professor de...

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