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Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nina L. KhrushchevaPublish date:2013-12-12Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300207323ISBN-10:300207328UPC:9780300207323Book Category:Literary CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCYHPEH7Q6

Vladimir Nabokov's "Western choice"--his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution--allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a Russian living in America, finds in Nabokov's novels a useful guide for Russia's integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov's "Western" characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier.

In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one's own "happy" destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, Khrushcheva contends, and Nabokov's work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300207323ISBN-10:300207328UPC:9780300207323Book Category:Literary CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCYHPEH7Q6

Nina L. Khrushcheva is associate professor of international affairs, International Affairs Program, The New School, New York. The great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, she now lives in New York City.


Publisher: Yale University Press

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