Lectures on Don Quixote

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory. Klappentext A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.

Summary

A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
• Assisted by: Fredson Bowers (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2002
• EAN: 9780156495400
• ISBN: 978-0-15-649540-0
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Portugal, Europe, Spain, Italy, Anthologies: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM: Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM: Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / Italian, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / General