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        Lectures on Russian Literature


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        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1981

        page count

        321

        difficulty

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        Rip's impressions

        Here Nabokov focuses on several works from each of Russia's many greats: Chekhov, Dostoevski (who he greatly disliked), Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gorki, and Gogol. Nabokov's lectures on Alexander Pushkin, the pillar of modern Russian literature, are to be found elsewhere.

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        "Russian Literature" as a notion, an immediate idea, this notion in the minds of non-Russians is generally limited to the
        awareness of Russia's having produced half a dozen great masters of prose between the middle of the nineteenth century
        and the first decade of the twentieth.

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        (spoiler alert)