{"product_id":"2026200012550-secondhand-vladimir-nabokov-a-tribute-his-life-his-work-his-world","title":"Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute: His Life, His Work, His World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures of the twentieth century cast as long and luminous a shadow as Vladimir Nabokov — novelist, poet, lepidopterist, and exile — and this carefully assembled tribute brings together some of the finest critical and personal voices of the age to honour his singular genius. Edited by Peter Quennell, Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute presents a rich mosaic of essays, recollections, and appreciations that illuminate the man behind such immortal works as Lolita, Pale Fire, and The Gift, chronicling his life from Imperial Russia to the heights of Western literary celebrity.\n\nThe contributors examine Nabokov's extraordinary command of language — his virtuosic wordplay, his labyrinthine narrative structures, and his fierce, idiosyncratic aestheticism — situating his work within the broader currents of modernist and postmodernist literature. The anthology also captures the deeply personal dimensions of Nabokov's world: his passionate devotion to chess problems and butterfly taxonomy, his complex relationship with memory and displacement, and his transformation of exile into art. A volume that rewards both the devoted Nabokovian and the curious newcomer, it leaves one pondering an enduring question: can any anthology truly contain a writer who always remained, gloriously, beyond classification?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130945380571,"sku":"2026200012550-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f4c32537-643c-4139-b407-34095856245c.png?v=1786593107","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012550-secondhand-vladimir-nabokov-a-tribute-his-life-his-work-his-world","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}