Poems 1918-1947. Superman's mournful song. Nabokov V.V.

This collection of poems by Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) compiled both well -known and first published works written in Europe and America in 1918-1947. The poems recently decrypted and newly -named in the archive, including the “Legend of the Moon” (1920), “Electricity” (1920), “In the North Wild” (1920), “Olympicum” (1921), significantly complement the Russian part of its bilingual poetic poetic poetic poetic Baggage and open unknown sides in his creative formation. In the poetry of the famous author of Lolita and Ady, the origins and prerequisites of the originality of his prose are found: subtle psychologism, picturesque visibility of descriptions, accurate observations, a special “mirror” of style, a combination of fiction with autobiography.

For the first time, the poems “Two” (1919), “The Legend of the Moon”, “Electricity”, “In the North Wild” are published; The text of the most significant of the early poems of Nabokov “Sunny Sleep” (1923) is rebuilding with the manuscript.

The application publishes another recent archival find, “Superman's mournful song” (1942), the original Nabokov interpretation of the image of the hero of American comics. The publication is equipped with comments and illustrative material.