San Antonio College Library

A celebration of Nabokov's seventieth birthday, with detailed analysis of some novels and discussions of his language and his place in the Russian literary tradition.

Critical essays to help you understand and appreciate Nabokov's novel, Lolita.

Drawing on Nabokov's unpublished manuscripts and letters, Shrayer analyzes the paradigms of Nabokov's poetics and tests them in studies of major stories such as "Spring in Fialta" and "Cloud, Castle, Lake." He investigates Nabokov's dialogue with Chekhov and his rivalry with Bunin over such issues as the use of narrative closure and the nature of love. This in-depth analysis places Nabokov's short fiction in the main line of his bilingual and bicultural...

The story of the Nabokovs, the famous for the novel, Lolita, she for being his muse, translator, editor, accountant, even typist. But above all she was his soulmate, a fact he recognized by dedicating every book to her. By the author of Saint-Exupéry.

A quarter century of intimate and intellectual correspondence between Nabokov and critic Edmund Wilson, prior to their notorious feud.

This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...