Word: nabokov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bootlegging facts in the diplomatic pouch of fiction, Sinyavsky demonstrates the range of his virtuosity and literary cunning by echoing some Russian masters: Gogol of the satiric Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky of the subversive Notes from Underground, Turgenev of the pastoral Fathers and Sons, Nabokov of the evocative Speak, Memory. It is a special tradition, one in which publish or perish could have just as easily meant publish and perish...
...Darman's negotiations with Congress present serpentine challenges worthy of a Kafka plot, his personality has the dense texturing of a protagonist in a Nabokov novel. Contradictions little and large adorn his life. He owns two racehorses but never bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year when his aged Audi expired, he agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into...
...Vladimir Nabokov carried his love of Russian into exile: "Beyond the seas where I have lost a sceptre,/ I hear the neighing of my dappled nouns,/ Soft participles coming down the steps,/ Treading on leaves, trailing their rustling gowns...
...economic problems. Press articles appeared on such subjects as drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. The picture magazine Ogonyok and the multilanguage weekly Moscow News started printing hard-hitting stories about corrupt officials, inefficient factories and alienated youth. Ogonyok, for example, has published such long-banned writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Osip Mandelstam. Moscow News has exposed police harassment of a journalist seeking to document shoddy construction of a power plant. Just how daring the press became is illustrated by a joke making the rounds in Moscow. A pensioner calls a friend and exclaims, "Did you see that incredible article...
This course covers "the mythos of love and its attendant social and sexual rituals as portrayed in some great works of literature during the past hundred years," according to the Summer School course catelogue. The reading list includes classics such as Nabokov's Lolita and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover--both the film and book versions...