The World of Nabokov's Stories

by Maxim D. Shrayer

Book Overview

A century after his birth, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) remains controversial, provocative, and cool. This title explores how Nabokov eclipsed the achievements of the Russian masters of the short story, Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin, with whom he maintained a dialogic relationship even as he became an American writer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292777337
• ISBN13: 9780292777330
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening Work of Nabokov's Short Fiction

This piece really does deserve credit. I am a ferocious devourer of Nabokov Criticism and this is one of the best works I've ever read. I have not worked through the whole thing but I use it often as a resource to my studies. The analysis of The Return of Chorb is especially brilliant and insightful, the several possibilities as to the name of Chorb were creative and compelling. I have a vast collection of Nabokov criticism from Stegner to Boyd, and this nice work joyously gets taken off the shelve to get played with quite often in comparison to many of the others.