The course may be good but the picture is horrible. VN with eyes of HH.
- George



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EDNOTE. An extremely nice VN  online course by Sara

Funke & Rodney Phillips.

 <http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/classics/russian/nabokov/>


 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,



Portrait


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.

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