Lectures On Russian Literature

This volume complements the widely praised Lectures on Literature , which the Washington Post ranked "with Flaubert's letters, James's prefaces and Woolf's diaries as privileged, nourishing, irreplaceable meditations on the art of fiction."

If Nabokov sparkled in those lectures on European authors, here in his commentaries on the great 19th-century Russian writers—Gogol, Turgenev, Gorki, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov—he is completely in his element.

As Nabokov guides readers through intricacies of plot and character, meticulously supplemented with facts about 19th-century Russia, he again demonstrates his brilliance as a teacher and his ability to enchant.