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Charlottengrad
As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered in and around the Charlottenburg neighborhood to such a degree that it became known as “Charlottengrad.” Traditionally, the Russian émigré community has been understood as one of exiles aligned with Imperial Russia and hostile to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet government that followed. However, Charlottengrad embodied a full range of personal and political positions vis-à-vis the Soviet project, from enthusiastic loyalty to questioning ambivalence and pessimistic alienation. By closely examining the intellectual output of Charlottengrad, Roman Utkin explores how community membe...
The Sublime Artist's Studio
The relation of the visual arts to Vladimir Nabokov's work is the subject of this in-depth and detailed study of one of the most significant facets of this modern master's oeuvre.
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting
Studie van de verwijzingen naar beeldende kunst in het werk van de Russisch-Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1977).
The Nabokovian
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The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord
A careful and intimate study on the ways Nabokov’s world perception and fictional universe were influenced by his father
Vintage Snapshots
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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Offers the first in-depth study of Nabokov’s humour Presents a revisionist reading of Nabokov Examines the metaphysical aspects of Nabokov’s humour Examines the sexual and scatological aspects of Nabokov’s humour Applies humour theory (e.g. those of Hobbes, Bergson, Freud) to Nabokov’s texts Compares Nabokov’s humour to that of his Russian predecessors (e.g. Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov) and to literary humourists such as Rabelais, Swift, Joyce Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond o...
Names
Journal of the American Name Society.
Delicate Markers
A study that focuses on diverse subtexts, the implicit meanings or, in Nabokov's words, the delicate markers which pervade his work and occur widely through the European heritage of the arts. Five chapters discuss Nabokov's pen name, Sirin; his interaction between the visual and verbal; Christian
