By Marijeta Bozovic

Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, in addition to Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive past due English language novel, have seemed approximately inscrutable to many interpreters of his paintings. If no longer outright mess ups, they can be thought of rather unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful learn, those key texts show Nabokov's pursuits to reimagine a canon of 19th- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a vital, instead of marginal, pressure. Nabokov's scholarly paintings, translations, and lectures on literature endure resemblance to New severe canon reformations; even if, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to legitimize his personal literary perform. the recent angles and theoretical framework provided by means of Nabokov's Canon support us to appreciate why Nabokov's provocative monuments stay robust resource texts for a number of generations of various foreign writers, in addition to richly efficient fabric for visible, cinematic, musical, and different inventive adaptations.

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