Harvest Book Lectures on Literature, (Paperback)

from Eoin

If you ever wanted to know what a scholar who can write with depth and immediacy about masterpieces has to say, this is the one. Sip or gulp, this book can be read in minute segments or holus bolus and much can be gained. Worth it.

from bloom

Excellent and brilliantly witty and dry series of lecture courses on literature from the master, Vladimir Nabokov. In this volume, Nabokov fights against all interpretive lenses, he denounces the sociological, political, and autobiographical perspectives on literature, arguing that a true reader ...

from grimoire

Structure! Style! Themes! As the earlier reviewer wrote, Mr. Nabakov has no interest in any ideological/socio-political readings of any novel. And he only has time for the *great* works. He does remind me, however, how far from the text we often go in literary studies. He sees a novel as a comple...

from Eoin

If you ever wanted to know what a scholar who can write with depth and immediacy about masterpieces has to say, this is the one. Sip or gulp, this book can be read in minute segments or holus bolus and much can be gained. Worth it.

from bloom

Excellent and brilliantly witty and dry series of lecture courses on literature from the master, Vladimir Nabokov. In this volume, Nabokov fights against all interpretive lenses, he denounces the sociological, political, and autobiographical perspectives on literature, arguing that a true reader ...