The Gift - Rilegato

Nabokov, Vladimir

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ISBN 10: 014119698X ISBN 13: 9780141196985

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2012

Riassunto

The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.

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Recensione:

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language. (Anthony Burgess)

Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)

L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 014119698X
• ISBN 13: 9780141196985
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 576