Lectures on Russian Literature

Synopsis

The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great russian authors including tolstoy, dostoevsky, gogol, gorky, and chekhov. In the 1940s, when vladimir nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the united states, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for nabokov’s teaching, first at wellesley and then at cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.