Lectures on foreign literature. Nabokov V.

In the “Lectures on Foreign Literature”, first published in 1980, the largest Russian-American writer of the twentieth century Vladimir Nabokov appeared to his fans, who knew him mainly as a virtuoso artist, sometimes unexpected hypostasis: a thoughtful reader, penetrating, meticulous and at the same time a very biased researcher, temperamental and demanding teacher. The book is based on the lecture course “Masters of European Prose”, prepared for students of Cornell University, where the writer taught in the 1940-1950s. On the pages of this volume, Nabokov-class gives his audience an excellent lesson in “close reading” of works by Jane Osten, Charles Dickens, Gustav Flobert, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, Marseille Proust and James Joyce.