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...with delight," he liked to say, "tearing apart Don Quixote, a cruel and crude old book, before six hundred students . . ." Yet he lectured on the book at Harvard, partly because it was required reading but also because it struck some chord in the speaker. The lectures, reconstructed by Editor Fredson Bowers, disclose reasons for that resonance...
...review of Fredson Bowers' book on Vladimir Nabokov's lectures [Nov. 16] reminded me of the extraordinary final exam I took 24 years ago in Nabokov's course at Cornell. All his students were aware of his emphasis on "the word, the expression . . . not ideas" and, consequently, had read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with great care. However, very few of us were prepared for questions like "Describe Vronsky's last glimpse of Anna" (dead under the wheels of a train), and the "trick" question: "What color paint was on the walls of the room where...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers...
...Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers...