Nina L. Khrushcheva's Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics PDF

By Nina L. Khrushcheva

ISBN-10: 0300108869

ISBN-13: 9780300108866

I'm really not really drawn to both Russia, literature or Nabakov, but the intersection of all of those, besides autobiographical fabric from Khrushcheva, make for an enticing and poignant publication. I felt like I discovered greatly approximately Russia, the us and the 20 th century. I learn this in sittings.

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10 He is too aloof and too formal; too inaccessible, unsociable, nonconformist, intellectual: “I do not write for groups, nor approve of group therapy. . I write for myself in multiplicate, a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizons of shimmering deserts” (SO, I#8, 114), or “I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons. . I especially loathe vulgar movies. . , I#9, 117). Nabokov doesn’t mix well with the masses. 29 Nabokov’s Russian Return .

And Retreat as a comforting “golden mean” between radical reforms and strong-arm rule. In this political environment an emigrant Nabokov, whose books the Russians were so eager to discover only six years ago, is no longer treated as a pioneer who defines modern Russia for its citizens. In fact, I’ve heard complaints that he shouldn’t be competing with other national writers and especially with Pushkin (reference to Nabokov’s “arrogant” commentary to Eugene Onegin)—the Solntse russkoi poezii (sun of Russian poetry), the author of Onegin and The Bronze Horseman,9 classics every Russian knows by heart.

5 Russian cultural instincts, in which communal ideas and a “great state” agenda remain more valued than individualist principles, helped determine the success of Putin’s policies. 6 He is liked by the old, who grew up in a communist welfare state and want its safety net back, however confining—with no individual choices to be made, and more predictable, if more miserable, social and economic conditions. The young, too, those with good “Western”-type jobs in banks or PR firms, have their doubts about the value of democracy in the Russian case and now seem to believe in the superiority of Russia’s state-directed oil-driven market economy over a free-market version.

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