This book first delves into the author’s ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of co
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, Cornell, where Nabokov taught for ten years, held the Cornell Nabokov Centenary Festival in September 1998 in Ithaca, New York, from which this volume is the r
