Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful...

One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge,...

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and...

"Dar" (im Englischen bekannt als "The Gift") ist der letzte in russischer Sprache verfasste Roman von Vladimir Nabokov. Die Handlung spielt im Berlin der 1920er Jahre und folgt dem jungen russischen Emigranten Fjodor...

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita,...

'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of...

"Lectures on Literature" von John Updike ist eine Sammlung von Vorträgen, die der renommierte amerikanische Autor über bedeutende Werke der Weltliteratur gehalten hat. In diesem Buch analysiert und interpretiert Updike verschiedene...

„Pnin“ von Vladimir Nabokov ist ein Roman, der das Leben des russisch-amerikanischen Professors Timofey Pnin schildert. Pnin ist ein liebenswerter, aber oft ungeschickter und zerstreuter Akademiker, der an einem kleinen College in den...

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the...

Die Gabe: Roman (Nabokov: Gesammelte Werke, Band 5)

"Lolita" von Vladimir Nabokov ist ein kontroverser Roman, der die verstörende Beziehung zwischen dem Protagonisten Humbert Humbert, einem gebildeten europäischen Intellektuellen, und der 12-jährigen Dolores Haze, genannt Lolita,...