Описание: | Included too are the surreally comic ' A Literary Dinner' , the enchanting, ' Eve' , the wryly humorous ' An Evening of Russian Poetry' and a meditation on the act of creation, ' Tolstoy' , as well as verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, love and Nabokov' s Russian homeland. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include The Luzhin Defense, The Gift, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada or Ardor; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin. Dmitri Nabokov (born in 1934) is one of Vladimir Nabokov' s principal translators, from and into four languages. After graduating with honours from Harvard and attending the Longy School of Music, he performed leading bass roles in opera houses in a number of countries. Nabokov' s masterly Collected Poems span the decades of his career, from ' Music' , written in 1914, to the short, playful ' To Vera' , composed in 1974. ' The University Poem' , one of Nabokov' s major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich description, wit and verbal dexterity. |