NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN PART

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The life of Vladimir Nabokov is one that we might consider would be known only in part. But in this evocative and brilliant work Andrew Field, the noted American scholar, paints a remarkable biographical portrait of Nabokov, as he sees his paradoxical subject. Nabokov has often reiterated that, being a writer, his written works—not the biographical evidence of his nonwriting moments—are his testament. And as a Russian who has re-created himself in foreign lands and languages, his personal history has perforce been partially obliterated. Nevertheless, Mr. Field follows the trajectory of his career with an extraordinary eye to its expressive and dramatic nuances; it is a deeply moving story. From the early years in prerevolutionary Russia, the ,emigre days in Cambridge and then as a struggling young writer in Berlin, through the 1940s and 1950s in America, and thence to Nabokov’s subsequent return to Europe, Mr. Field traces the richly complex life of one of the very greatest living writers.