Nabokov in Motion

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  • ISBN 9781501386541
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Apr 2022
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Adopting the modernist master Vladimir Nabokov as its guide, Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement is an exploration of the radically changing social, historical, technological, and literary culture of the early 20th century, a time when modes of communication and transportation, especially, were changing society in drastic and profound ways.

Across seventy microchapters that are by turn serious, ironic, informative, and playful, and which take on topics such as automobiles, trains, airplanes, electricity, elevators, advertisements, telegraphs, and telephones, Yuri Leving offers new ways to understand Nabokov, Russian literature, and technology, modernism, and world material culture. Nabokov’s writings are analyzed against a broad context of prose and poetry and from the point of view of what Leving calls the poetics of urbanism in literature.

Nabokov in Motion is a ground-breaking exploration of urban and material themes in literature and creates a complex and vibrant cultural fabric of which Nabokov is the master weaver.

Yuri Leving is University Research Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the author of nine books and editor of six volumes, including Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura (2013); Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols” (Bloomsbury, 2012), and Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design (2013). Leving is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal and served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes.