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- 9781101873700
- Book Title
- Think, Write, Speak : Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Original Language
- Rus,Eng
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Russian & Former Soviet Union, Essays
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 18.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child" so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions . Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov's supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101873701
ISBN-13
9781101873700
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Think, Write, Speak : Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor
Original Language
Rus,Eng
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Russian & Former Soviet Union, Essays
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
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Ps3527.A15a6 2019
Reviews
"Immense fun . . . Any sensitive reader will linger over the beautiful sentences with which Nabokov enriches even his most casual prose." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "A must-read . . . Nabokov notices (and is often amused by) everything . . . He is forever smart and associative, satisfying from the smallest bit to the largest chunk . . . Boyd and Tolstoy have brought out a volume that no Nabokov fan can overlook. We have before us a genius scrambling to patch together a living in the volume's early years, then a genius living with, and mostly reveling in, the fame he earned." -- Catherine Holmes, The Post and Courier "Gives us a window into the earlier decades of Nabokov's life . . . This new collection is an expansive record of Nabokov's worldview and aesthetic philosophy, but one particularly fascinating element of Think, Write, Speak is the insight it gives us into how Nabokov, staunchly opposed to the politicization of literature, navigated being a public explainer of Russian arts and letters in the midst of the Cold War." --Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic "Nabokov is Nabokov. He dispenses gleaming shards . . . The best passage in Think, Write, Speak [is] one that, were I a tattoo person, I would consider advertising on my forearm." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review "Every interview Nabokov granted was a defense, not only of himself against charges of scandal and obscenity, but also of art, the imagination, and literature itself. He devoted his life to the shiver in the spine that passes from writer to reader, and it's there that he lives on." --Christian Lorentzen, Financial Times "Vladimir Nabokov's opinions . . . are of compelling interest because--paradoxically--he regularly and accurately insisted that his novels sent no message, made no moral case, presented no argument. The beauty and fascination of his views on literary and other matters rest, I think, on his openness to laughter. . . . Nabokov had a lot to laugh about." -- Philip Hensher, The Spectator "For those of us who are Vladimir Nabokov completists perhaps we finally have closure . . . Now we have the full Nabokovian ex cathedra pronouncements in all their typical vim and vigour, to be relished all the more because Nabokov insisted on writing the replies to all questions posed." --William Boyd, The Times Literary Supplement (Best Books of the Year 2019) "Scores of interviews reveal Nabokov's sly wit and powerful opinions . . . An informative introduction places the selections in the context of Nabokov's life and writing career . . . A treat for Nabokov admirers." -- Kirkus Reviews
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