Vn: The Life And Art Of Vladimir Nabokov
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Edition: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination, reverence, and controversy as Vladimir Nabokov — and Andrew Field's VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov stands as one of the most ambitious attempts to capture the man behind the myth. Drawing on years of personal acquaintance, exclusive interviews, and exhaustive archival research, Field chronicles the life of this Russian-born master, from his aristocratic St. Petersburg childhood through his years of European exile and his eventual triumph as one of the giants of American literature, the author of the scandalous and sublime Lolita. Field's biography is as complex and layered as its subject, weaving literary criticism seamlessly into personal narrative to illuminate how Nabokov's turbulent, peripatetic life — marked by revolution, loss, and reinvention — shaped his singular artistic vision. The author argues persuasively that Nabokov's art cannot be divorced from his biography, that the puzzles, games, and dazzling verbal artifice of the novels are deeply autobiographical in ways the notoriously private writer would never openly concede. A portrait both intimate and contested, VN leaves the reader wondering just how much of any great artist can truly be known — and whether Nabokov, the supreme illusionist, ever allowed anyone close enough to find out.
Author: Andrew Field
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Crown Publishers
Genre: Biography
Edition: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination, reverence, and controversy as Vladimir Nabokov — and Andrew Field's VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov stands as one of the most ambitious attempts to capture the man behind the myth. Drawing on years of personal acquaintance, exclusive interviews, and exhaustive archival research, Field chronicles the life of this Russian-born master, from his aristocratic St. Petersburg childhood through his years of European exile and his eventual triumph as one of the giants of American literature, the author of the scandalous and sublime Lolita. Field's biography is as complex and layered as its subject, weaving literary criticism seamlessly into personal narrative to illuminate how Nabokov's turbulent, peripatetic life — marked by revolution, loss, and reinvention — shaped his singular artistic vision. The author argues persuasively that Nabokov's art cannot be divorced from his biography, that the puzzles, games, and dazzling verbal artifice of the novels are deeply autobiographical in ways the notoriously private writer would never openly concede. A portrait both intimate and contested, VN leaves the reader wondering just how much of any great artist can truly be known — and whether Nabokov, the supreme illusionist, ever allowed anyone close enough to find out.