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Há 4 dias · He reportedly attended lectures given by Vladimir Nabokov, who then taught literature at Cornell. Although Nabokov later said that he had no memory of Pynchon, Nabokov's wife Véra , who graded her husband's class papers, commented that she remembered his distinctive handwriting as a mixture of printed and cursive letters, "half ...
Há 5 horas · t. e. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. [1] The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Early Middle Ages when Old Church Slavonic was introduced as a liturgical language and became used as a literary language. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in ...
Há 1 dia · Difficult book to read, not because of the subject matter, but because of the verbosity and high-brow-ness of the prose. Also, to me, because it is in fact a situational dark comedy with social satire strewn on, and many of the scenes are just unbearably awkward. The ending is slightly disappointing, too.
Há 2 dias · Dostoevsky's work did not always gain a positive reception. Some critics, such as Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov, viewed his writing as excessively psychological and philosophical rather than artistic.
Há 3 dias · Petah ? So a guy by the name of Sergey Taboritsky (don't think it, don't say it) attempted to assassinate a Russian liberal politician in 1922. Taboritsky (don't think it, don't say it) however was stopped by a guy named Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov who was shot and killed trying to stop him.
Há 4 dias · Quotations from Vladimir Nabokov: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred ...
Há 3 dias · Description. The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets (1931–1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's tallest structure of its time.
