Pniniad : Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel
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| Autore: |
Diment Galya
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| Titolo: |
Pniniad : Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel
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| Pubblicazione: | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | College teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography |
| Cornell University -- Biography | |
| Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Friends and associates | |
| Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977. -- Pnin | |
| Russian Americans -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography | |
| Russians in literature | |
| Szeftel, Marc | |
| Russian Americans - Biography - Ithaca - New York (State) | |
| College teachers - Biography - Ithaca - New York (State) | |
| English | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| American Literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1. Marc Szeftel's Odyssey: An Alien and an Exile""; ""Chapter 2. Colleagues and Collaborators: Szeftel and Nabokov at Cornell ""; ""Chapter 3. Pnin""; ""Chapter 4. Szeftel in Search of Success: Lolita""; ""Chapter 5. Life After Nabokov""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendixes: From Marc Szeftel's Archive and Writings""; ""Appendix 1: Szeftel's ""Intellectual Autobiography"" ""; ""Appendix 2: Correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov and Roman Jakobson""; ""Appendix 3: Nabokov in Szeftel's Diaries""; ""Appendix 4: Szeftel's Papers on Lolita"" |
| ""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov’s fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history.Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much of the complexity and variety of the Russian postrevolution emigre experience in Europe and the United States. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain.Pniniad--the epic of Pnin--begins with Szeftel’s early life in Russia and ends with his years in Seattle at the University of Washington, turning pivotally upon the time in Szeftel’s and Nabokov’s lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparantly was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel’s feelings towards Nabokov were also mixed, raning from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov to persistent envy of Nabokov’s success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pniniad |
| ISBN: | 9780295801087 |
| 0295801085 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956675303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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