Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the

Description: Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Anastasia Tolstoy An extraordinary collection of Nabokovs little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last interviewsThe last major collection of Nabokovs published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the authors extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through to his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokovs literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated here. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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 greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even Gods own novelist (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, has long been associated with the work of Vladimir Nabokov, as annotator, bibliographer, biographer, critic, editor, translator and more. His works have appeared in nineteen languages and won awards on four continents.Anastasia Tolstoy, a junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, holds a doctorate from Oxford, where she completed a DPhil on Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetics of Disgust. She is the co-translator, with Thomas Karshan, of Nabokovs neo-Shakespearean blank verse drama The Tragedy of Mister Morn. Review For those of us who are Vladimir Nabokov completists perhaps we finally have closure ... Now we have the full Nabokovian ex cathedra pronouncements in all their typical vim and vigour. -- William Boyd * Times Literary Supplement *Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful ... Vladimir Nabokovs views are of compelling interest - paradoxically, because he regularly insisted that his novels sent no message, made no moral case and presented no argument ... His non-fiction stands up astonishingly well. -- Philip Hensher * The Spectator *A rich treat for Nabokovs admirers. * Kirkus *The writers genius for nailing a subject in a sentence lives on in his stinging reviews and defensive interviews. -- Christian Lorentzen * Financial Times *A fuller, and maybe truer, image of Nabokov ... The greatest pleasure in reading this book is the impression you get that youre opening your presents underneath the Christmas tree ... A lovely blend of literary elements and of personal details pertaining to Nabokov: you experience intellectual marvel when you detect the premises of a famous quote or a literary pattern, and you feel particular pleasure when you get a glimpse of the man hiding behind the famous writer and becoming suddenly relatable. -- Julie Loison-Charles * Transatlantica * Review Text For those of us who are Vladimir Nabokov completists perhaps we finally have closure ... Now we have the full Nabokovian ex cathedra pronouncements in all their typical vim and vigour. Review Quote For those of us who are Vladimir Nabokov completists perhaps we finally have closure ... Now we have the full Nabokovian ex cathedra pronouncements in all their typical vim and vigour. Promotional "Headline" An extraordinary collection of Nabokovs little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last interviews Details ISBN0141398388 Author Anastasia Tolstoy Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 0141398388 ISBN-13 9780141398389 Publication Date 2020-11-05 Pages 576 Series Penguin Modern Classics Short Title Think, Write, Speak Language English Format Paperback Subtitle Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor DEWEY 813.54 UK Release Date 2020-11-05 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Multiple languages Illustrator Vanessa Flores Birth 1861 Death 1925 Affiliation Rick Ingrasci Position Illustrator Qualifications PsyD Alternative 9780141397214 Edited by Anastasia Tolstoy Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-01-18 AU Release Date 2021-01-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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