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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:30:01 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
The extensive The New York Public Library's archives can be examined on line and
provide a wonderful reading experience.
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From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: College Nabokov course online
EDNOTE. An extremely nice VN online course by Sara
Funke & Rodney Phillips.
The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov
Rodney Phillips, Sarah Funke
Seminar Introduction
Writing in three languages (French, Russian and English) and on
three continents, Vladimir Nabokov (below) enjoyed a career spanning more than
50 years. His body of work is a testament to the power of memory triumphing
over both loss and emigration. In this seminar, the director of The New York
Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library,
NYPL, Berg Collection
Rodney Phillips, and writer Sarah Funke explore Nabokov's public
life and career through his surviving manuscripts, notes, lectures and
photographs.
Born to a wealthy and prominent family in St. Petersburg in 1899,
Nabokov developed a love of poetry, a passion for butterflies and a fascination
with and mastery of languages in his childhood, and these life-long interests
would all figure prominently in his prolific body of work. Exiled from his
homeland when he was 20, Nabokov continued to write many stories and novels in
his mother tongue. Decades later, he translated much of this work into English,
often in collaboration with his son Dmitri. In 1940, he left the tumultuous
political climate of Europe, hoping to make a name for himself with an American
audience. For 20 years Nabokov supported his family by teaching at Wellesley
College and Cornell University; but with the slow-building but eventually
worldwide success of his controversial novel Lolita, Nabokov was able to devote
his life solely to writing--and butterfly hunting. His large body of
English-language works, as well as the translations of his early Russian short
stories and novels, then began to garner increasing critical attention--both
staunch praise and severe criticism.
Based on selections from The New York Public Library's extensive
Vladimir Nabokov Archive, this seminar examines Nabokov's early writings and
influences; his experiences with book, magazines and journal publishing in both
Europe and America; and his "other" careers as a teacher and a lepidopterist.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/classics/russian/nabokov/
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