Russian Critics - Russian Literary Critics, Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bakhtin, Vissarion Belinsky, Andrei Bely, Korney (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Russian literary critics, Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bakhtin, Vissarion Belinsky, Andrei Bely, Korney Chukovsky, Serge Poltoratzky, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Ivan Kireyevsky, Osip Brik, Evgenia Tur, Mikhail Dostoyevsky, Georgy Chulkov, Aleksandr Voronsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Arkady Gornfeld, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Lev Losev, Antiochus Kantemir, Dmitry Pisarev, Nikolai Nadezhdin, Mikhail Lifshitz, Yuly Aykhenvald, Victor Erofeyev, Alexei Purin, Mikhail Ivanov, Pavel Katenin, Platon Kerzhentsev, Nikolay Strakhov, Pavel Annenkov, Eugene Myroshnichenko, Gleb Struve, Liubov Gurevich, Benedikt Sarnov, Lidiya Ginzburg. Excerpt: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: , pronounced; 22 April 1899 - 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at No.4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at No.53 on the same list. His memoir, Speak, Memory, was listed No.8 on the Modern Library nonfiction list. Nabokov House in Saint Petersburg where Nabokov was born and lived the first 18 years of his life Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old-Style), in Saint Petersburg, to a wealthy and prominent Saint Petersburg family of the minor nobility. He was the eldest of five children of liberal lawyer, statesman, and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and his...