Fr. 31.90

The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness

English · Hardback

Shipping usually takes at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris. She has taught literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. She now writes and lives mainly in New York City. Klappentext The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great writer of happiness." Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory; Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, and language in all its allusions. She explores Nabokov's geography-from his Russian childhood to the landscapes of "his" America-suffers encounters with his beloved "nature," hallucinates an interview with the master, and seeks the "crunch of happiness" in his singular vocabulary. This beautifully illuminated book will both reignite the passion of experienced Nabokovians and lure the innocent reader to a well of delights as yet unseen. Zusammenfassung Discovering happiness in reading the work of an extraordinary writer.

Product details

Authors Lila Azam Zanganeh, Lila A. Zanganeh, Lila Azam Zanganeh
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 16.08.2011
 
EAN 9780393079920
ISBN 978-0-393-07992-0
Dimensions 145 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.