At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir
Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining
exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part,
award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990)
and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection
features essays written by Boyd since completing the biography,
incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new
discoveries and formulations. Boyd confronts Nabokov's life,
career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor
and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits;
and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with
Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd offers
new ways of reading Nabokov's best English-language works: Lolita,
Pale Fire, Ada, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory,
and he discloses otherwise unknown information about the author's
world. Sharing his personal reflections, Boyd recounts the
adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's
biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including
materials still awaiting publication. The first to focus on
Nabokov's metaphysics, Boyd cautions against their being used as
the key to unlock all of the author's secrets, showing instead the
many other rooms in Nabokov's castle of fiction that need
exploring, such as his humor, narrative invention, and
psychological insight into characters and readers alike.
Appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator,
scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever
the author's multifaceted genius.
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