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At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled . In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to America and…
Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming American literary marketplace; and to reconceptualise the way we think…