Terra Incognita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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These three stories of menace, magic and melancholy display Vladimir Nabokov's astonishing range and inventiveness. Whether describing an escape across a surreal tropical landscape, a fateful meeting or an unexpected - and threatening - return, each tale shows his dazzling sleight of hand, intellectual playfulness and fantastical imagination.Tags
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The titular piece is ruined by a hamfisted and ghastly bit of materialistic sermonizing. Dreadful. Though the colorful prose and imaginative stories save the rest of it.
Read a lot of his short stories, all different, though sensual, some are the best I ever read. Two of the stories here are very short, leaving little room for character development. The first one is rich in language, mesmerizing. The last is rather factual, more of an anecdote. I like the longer middel one best, melancholic, beauty of language and some character development.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nobokov was born April 22, 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia to a wealthy family. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. When he left Russia, he moved to Paris and eventually to the United States in 1940. He taught at Wellesley College and Cornell University. Nobokov is revered as one of the great American novelists of the show more 20th Century. Before he moved to the United States, he wrote under the pseudonym Vladimir Serin. Among those titles, were Mashenka, his first novel and Invitation to a Beheading. The first book he wrote in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. He is best know for his work Lolita which was made into a movie in 1962. In addition to novels, he also wrote poetry and short stories. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times, but never won it. Nabokov died July 2, 1977. show less
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- Canonical title
- Terra Incognita
- Original publication date
- 2011-02-15
- Disambiguation notice
- Consists of the short stories Terra Incognita, Spring in Fialta and The Doorbell.
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- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 891.7342 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Early 20th century 1917–1945
- LCC
- PG3476 .N3 .A6 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1917-1960
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- Languages
- English, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
