{"product_id":"vladimir-nabokov-the-russian-years-9780691024707","title":"Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the United States. This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, prerevolutionary and  migr . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the course of his ten years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy and his innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1599660\"\u003eBrian Boyd\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.28w x 1.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691024707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691024707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eVladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton 1990), \u003ci\u003eVladimir Nabokov: The American Years\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton 1991), and \u003ci\u003eNabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e. Referred to in a recent journal as \"the great man of Nabokov studies,\" he has also edited Nabokov's English novels and autobiography for the Library of America and \u003ci\u003eNabokov's Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e for Beacon Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43830698999947,"sku":"9780691024707","price":74.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_bbf081d3-9d8f-49df-b041-71af89dae5cc.jpg?v=1755583918","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/vladimir-nabokov-the-russian-years-9780691024707","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}