vladimir nabokov edited fredson bowers (4 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 2nd printing. 324pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "This volume complements the widely praised Lectures on Literature, which the Washington Post Book World ranked 'with Flaubert's letters, James' prefaces and Woolf's diaries as privileged, nourishing, irreplaceable meditations on the art of fiction.' [] If Nabokov sparkled in those lectures on European authors, here in his commentaries on the great 19th-century Russian writers--Gogol, Turgenev, Gorki, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov--he is completely in his element. 'Not only did these writers represent to him the absolute height of Russian literature (with Pushkin, of course),' Fredson Bowers notes, 'but they also flourished counter to the utilitarianism that he despised both in the social critics of the time and, more bitingly, in its later Soviet development.' They were the last unfettered voices of his lost homeland. [] As Nabokov guides readers through intricacies of plot and character, meticulously supplemented with facts about 19th-century Russia, he again demonstrates his brilliance as a teacher and his ability to enchant. Thirty-eight illustrations give evidence of the care with which he prepared these celebrated lectures." [publisher copy] "This volume never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians."--Anthony Burgess. "Nabokov's imagination and style lifted his lectures from the level of mere pedagogy into a realm of delight."--Leon Eden. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. NYC: Harcourt, 1981. 1st edition, VG/VG. Book some wear to spine ends, color fade along lower front panel, tape marks on free end-papers. DJ has wear &scraping to lower spine, tape marks on both flaps. Lectures on Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy and Turgenev. Appendix: an exam on Russian Lit. (hand-written facsimile, 5 pp.). Nice copy, 531 pp. BP.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Stated First edition B C D E - 385pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unmarked, in Very Good condition. "'With a pleasure which is both sensual and intellectual, we shall watch the artist build the castle of cards and watch the castle of cards become a castle of beautiful steel and glass.' [] That is how Vladimir Nabokov began his course on the masterpieces of world literature. For nearly twenty years, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, published for the first time, are his famous lectures on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; Swann's Way by Marcel Proust; 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka; and Ulysses by James Joyce. [] In these lectures, Nabokov reveals how the masterpieces work. He reconstructs the plots, describing in loving detail their twists and turns. He draws diagrams to help readers visualize the action and setting--Bloom's and Stephen's comings and goings in Ulysses, the facade of Dr. Jekyll's house, for instance. And he quotes from the books at length to recreate the important scenes. [] Above all, Nabokov teaches us how to read--how to use our imagination and our memory. As he says in the introductory lecture, 'We ought to remain a little aloof and take pleasure in this aloofness while at the same time we keenly enjoy--passionately enjoy, with tears and shivers--the inner weave of a given masterpiece.' [] After he left teaching, Nabokov planned to publish a book based on the lectures, but he never began the project. Professor Fredson Bowers has edited the lectures from Nabokov's handwritten manuscripts and teaching copies of his books, providing a text that evokes Vladimir Nabokov's classroom style and the brilliance of his personality. As John Updike states in his Introduction: 'Now here, wonderfully, the lectures are. And still redolent of the classroom odors that an authorial revision might have scoured away. Nothing one has heard or read about them has quite foretold their striking, enveloping quality of pedagogic warmth.'" [jacket copy] "A collection of sparkling spoken essays."--V. S. Pritchett, The New Yorker. VG hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, slightly cocked spine ends pushed & upper board corners tapped, o/w still sharp & clean, wrapped in a Good, intact jacket (tear repaired) covered in archival mylar. All quite presentable.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Bien. 1? Edición. Harcourt Brace, USA, 1981. Texto en inglés. XVII + 385 pp. 26 x 19. Tela editorial tapa dura con dorados en tapa y lomo de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación.