By Набоков Владимир
Владимир Набоков
В начале 1980-х годов стало доступно новое измерение творчества Владимира Набокова благодаря усилиям его наследников и текстолога Ф. Боуэрса. Университетские лекции Набокова, прочитанные в американских университетах в 1940–1950 гг., раскрывали западной аудитории мир русской литературы, включая произведения Гоголя, Тургенева, Толстого, Достоевского и Чехова. Эти лекции также представили в новом свете творчество Диккенса, Флобера, Пруста, Кафки и Джойса. Чтение лекций, сочетающее биографические сведения с детальным анализом произведений, позволяет глубже понять творческое сознание писателя и суть литературного искусства.
Vladimir Nabokov
In the early 1980s, a new facet of Vladimir Nabokov's multifaceted talent emerged for readers, thanks to the efforts of his heirs and American textual scholar F. Bowers. Collected in three volumes, Nabokov's university lectures on Russian and European literature, delivered at Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard in the 1940s and 1950s, not only introduced Western audiences to the vast world of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov but also shed new light on Dickens, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. These lectures, blending biographical sketches with detailed analyses and original interpretations of famous works, offer a unique insight into the creative mind of the brilliant writer and the essence of literary art. This edition marks the first complete Russian translation of the "Lectures on Russian Literature," featuring all illustrations from the original publication. A significant portion of the lecture material and essays in this volume are presented in new translations, supplemented by F. Bowers's notes and editorial comments.