{"product_id":"vladimir-nabokov-the-russian-years","title":"Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov  one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers  finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man  Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer  he did not achieve fame until late in life  with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes  Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs  their escape from Russia  Nabokovs education at Cambridge  and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent  impoverished  in Germany and France  until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee  with wife and son  to the United States. This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokovs Russian years and Russian worlds  prerevolutionary and migr.  In the course of his ten years work on the biography  Boyd traveled along Nabokovs trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress  he also interviewed at length Nabokovs family and scores of his friends and associates.  For the general reader  Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man  his works  and his world. For the specialist  he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokovs life and art  as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokovs works  published and unpublished.  Boyd investigates Nabokovs relation to and his independence from his time  examines the special structures of his mind and thought  and explains the relations between his philosophy and his innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction  dramas  memoirs  and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar  while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokovs life and the themes and subjects of his art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945940185141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691024707","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691024707.jpg?v=1770391277","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vladimir-nabokov-the-russian-years","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}