![]() ![]() He offers floor plans of railway cars and pictures of the characters' clothing. His recurring theme is that "literature belongs not to the department of general ideas but to the department of specific words and images," and this is what his lectures focus on. Nabokov's basic approach to literature is as a passionate reader. Nabokov offers some interesting biographical details about the authors, but he does not even mess with their philosophies or beliefs or their sociocultural milieu. They are extremely accessible (and typeset in a comfortably large size). These are not lectures in the academic sense that you will be exposed to critical trends and philosophical arguments raised by the texts in question. ![]() The treatment of Anna Karenina is especially thorough and delightful. I would highly recommend it if you have read any of the authors he covers (Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy, and Turgenev). This is a compilation of Vladimir Nabokov's lectures given when he was a professor at Wellesley and Cornell in the 1940s and 1950s. ![]()
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