

Selected Poems
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/08/2012
Categories: Fiction
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/08/2012
Categories: Fiction
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for the United States, where he wrote some of his greatest worksb — Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962) — and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
It seems to me that for Nabokov his poetry was not only a way of expressing himself but rather some sort of a secret place where he could escape from all the grief and hardships of the exile and be himself and go where he always longed to be - in his Paradise lost, filled with happy chilhood memorie......more
REMEMBRANCE Like silent ships we two in darkness met, And when some day the poet’s careless fame Shall breathe to you a half-forgotten name— Soul of my song, I want you to regret. For you had Love. Out of my life you tore One shining page. I want, if we must part, Remembrance pale to quiver in your......more
In prose-poesy, Nabokov is sui generis, part of the movement to reinvent the language of the novel along with other modernist stylists: Joyce, Woolf, Proust. He is remembered as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, and rightfully so for his creative re-conceptualizing of the novel......more