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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

ISBN: 0679729976
ISBN-13: 9780679729976
Format: Paperback

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These 65 stories, drawn from Nabokov's four earlier collections and including eleven never before translated into English, display the astonishing range of his technical and formal inventiveness. The stories span the years from the early 1920s-the years of his exile from Russia-to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces LOLITA, PALE FIRE, and ADA. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov.

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"In the pages of this new book, Nabokov seems less aloof than elsewhere: his talent for ecstasy becomes apprehensive, caught up in blue-rimmed, insomniac worries and in glimpses of a capricious afterlife. These stories are incantations, and they summon the strangest things."    -- Anthony Lane

   -- New Yorker

"In this sumptuous volume of 65 short stories...the reader is treated to a glorious recapitulation of the sorcerer's entire career. His fascination with the elusive transactions made between life and art, his obsession with memory and the practice of nostalgia, his own experience of expatriation, and his love of of games and puzzles and coincidence-all can be found in these pages, pushed, prodded and honed into a variety of shapes, into whimsical fables, old-fashioned character sketches, Poe-like exercises in the macabre, and clever postmodernist confections."    -- Michiko Kakutani

   -- New York Times

"THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV is not an easy read-hard to hold, and rather dense and rich for systematic, consecutive perusal. For those who stay with it, though, the volume recapitulates a brave career. [S]urprisingly, happiness is a recurrent theme. His youthful passions for lepidopterology, chess, and poetry fused to form a prose of unique intensity and trickiness."    -- John Updike

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1997
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds
Pages: 659

Publisher's Notes

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokovs imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseurs samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

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Hardcover - Random House Inc (1995) - from $49.99
Paperback - Random House Inc (1997) - from $7.67

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