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Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews And Letters To The Editor

by Vladimir Nabokov
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, November of 2019 ‧
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''Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful'' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019

The last major collection of Nabokov''s published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author''s extraordinary career.

Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.

Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov''s literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated.

Think, Write, Speak

Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews And Letters To The Editor

by Vladimir Nabokov

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ISBN: 9780141397214
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: November of 2019
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Penguin Modern Classics
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Essays
EAN: 9780141397214
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vladimir Nabokov

Escritor norte-americano de origem russa, nascido em 1899 e falecido em 1977, exilou-se com a família na Inglaterra, França e Alemanha. Neste último país, escreveu, em russo, a primeira parte da sua obra literária, de entre a qual se destaca Mashenka e Glória.
Em 1940 partiu para os Estados Unidos da América, adquirindo a nacionalidade americana em 1945. Começou a escrever em inglês, mantendo, nas obras deste período, o fundo fantástico, a visão irónica da vida quotidiana e a mestria formal que já havia demonstrado, e almejou levar a cabo um retrato da sociedade norte-americana através das suas convenções culturais e posturas perante o sexo.
São dignas de nota as narrativas: "Invitation to a Beheading", "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight", "Lolita", um grande êxito editorial transposto para o cinema por S. Kubrick e cujo argumento se baseia nos amores de um homem adulto por uma adolescente, "Pale Fir", Pnin, Ada; or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" e "Speak Memory".

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