Biography of vladimir nabokov
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The Russian Years.
By Brian Boyd.
Illustrated. 607 pp. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press. $25.
In the 1950's, the novel ''Lolita'' created a sensation in this country and its author, Vladimir Nabokov, became an instant celebrity as one of the best writers of English. There are many ironies in that. Nabokov, who was born in Russia, had fled his native country at the age of 20 after the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil war that followed. Twenty years later he fled Europe when the Nazis overran it, and he spent the next two decades in the United States, teaching on several campuses, notably at Cornell University.
Before ''Lolita'' was published he was known only to a handful of people here who had read his Russian works and to an even more select group as an investigator and discoverer of new species of butterflies. The fortune ''Lolita'' brought him allowed him to quit teachin
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Biography Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899 – 1977), Russian and American novelist, short-story writer, poet, translator, and lepidopterist was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family. He grew up trilingual from childhood, studied at the Tenishev School. Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich, played a prominent role in the provisional government. In November 1917 the Nabokovs left for Crimea and in 1919, the family fled to England. Vladimir Nabokov enrolled in Cambridge. While Vladimir Nabokov studied at Cambridge where he took a degree in Slavic and Roman Literatures, his family settled down in Berlin where Nabokov’s father became an editor of the emigre newspaper The Rudder (Rul’). As Yulia Trubikhina 2019) noted, “In the summer of 1922, Gamaiun, a Russian publishing company in Berlin, commissioned the twenty-three-year-old Nabokov to translate Alice in Wonderland into Russian.” A brilliant translation entitled Anya v st • Veronica Yabloko In St. Petersburg, Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born to lawyer Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and heiress Yelena Ivanovna on April 22, 1899. Because of his family’s social status
Vladimir Nabokov Bio
For many people the name Vladimir Nabokov conjures the thought of a single novel: Lolita. And while Lolita was certainly a masterpiece, to reduce Nabokov’s career to the impact of a single text would be a criminal injustice. Not only was Nabokov a masterful writer whose texts were both shocking and intriguing, but he also saw the world through a particular and unique lens. A survivor of revolution and tragedy, Nabokov’s writing was shaped greatly bygd his experiences as a political flykting. Combined with his gift of synesthesia, which allowed him to see letters as colors, Nabokov had a mastery of language unfathomable to many. But to understand his literary genius, we must first understand the life that shaped him as an artist.