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Review: "'I am almost exclusively a writer, and my style is all I have', wrote Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel "Lolita", Nabokov is celebrated as a prolific author and poet in both Russian and English. In "Vladimir Nabokov", Barba…
"'I am almost exclusively a writer, and my style is all I have', wrote Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel "Lolita", Nabokov is celebrated as a prolific author and poet in both Russian and English. In "Vladimir Nabokov", Barbara Wylli…
Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of t.
Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake -- Babels' two Aphrodites : autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg myth / Gregory Freidin -- Babel in the context of Russian history. The Reds and the Jews, or the comrad…
Bringing together scholars of different countries and areas of specialization, this volume is the first examination of Babel's life and art since the fall of communism and the opening of Soviet archives. It is written as part biography, part history, and part critical examinatio…
A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel disappeared in May 1939 when he was arrested by Soviet secret police. As Soviet-era archives have become subject to scholarly scrutiny so it has become possible to create a more rounded portrait of Babel & to answer q…
