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Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov. The master talks about the subject he knows and loves best: the classics written in the first of his native tongues...
Nattering About Nabokov...
...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...
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
...reviewer for the book section of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME as a book reviewer in 1967. His cover story this week on Irving, which was edited by Stefan Kanfer and researched by Zona Sparks, is Sheppard's third. (The others: Vladimir Nabokov in 1969 and Mario Puzo...