Subject
SIGHTING: Khrushcheva and VN
From
Date
Body
Subject:
Nabokov taught us how to remain Russian without Russia ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:40:05 -0400
To:
Sandy Klein--hotmail <spklein52@hotmail.com>
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/10/arts/nabokov.php
Nina Khrushcheva with a statue of the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov in
Montreux, Switzerland, where he lived. (E.J. Baumeister Jr. )
Rethinking Nabokov as a 'road map' for modern Russia
By Sophia Kishkovsky
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
MOSCOW: Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev,
the Soviet leader who boasted that the Soviet Union would catch up with
and overtake the United States, has a different model for post-Soviet
Russians making their way in the Western world: the life and works of
Vladimir Nabokov, the émigré writer who became a giant in the West
decades before being acknowledged in Russia.
The Moscow publisher Vremya recently released her book, "V Gostiakh U
Nabokova," or "Visiting Nabokov," first published in English in 2007 by
Yale University Press as "Imagining Nabokov," a slightly different
version. Khrushcheva was in Moscow in June, lecturing on individual
freedom and national identity, which are at the heart of her book.
Freedom, as it was understood during the Putin era, was the antithesis
of Nabokov's own understanding of the term, Khrushcheva said in an
interview.
"I think Putin stops at Dostoyevsky," she said, musing on whether
Vladimir Putin had read Nabokov. "I think Nabokov would be very
threatening to his whole worldview. He doesn't really provide for any
exceptionalism and sovereign democracy."
"The 'American' Nabokov of the second half of the twentieth century is
the most important cultural and literary phenomenon for Russia in the
first half of the twenty-first," writes Khrushcheva in the book.
[. . .]
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
Nabokov taught us how to remain Russian without Russia ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:40:05 -0400
To:
Sandy Klein--hotmail <spklein52@hotmail.com>
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/10/arts/nabokov.php
Nina Khrushcheva with a statue of the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov in
Montreux, Switzerland, where he lived. (E.J. Baumeister Jr. )
Rethinking Nabokov as a 'road map' for modern Russia
By Sophia Kishkovsky
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
MOSCOW: Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev,
the Soviet leader who boasted that the Soviet Union would catch up with
and overtake the United States, has a different model for post-Soviet
Russians making their way in the Western world: the life and works of
Vladimir Nabokov, the émigré writer who became a giant in the West
decades before being acknowledged in Russia.
The Moscow publisher Vremya recently released her book, "V Gostiakh U
Nabokova," or "Visiting Nabokov," first published in English in 2007 by
Yale University Press as "Imagining Nabokov," a slightly different
version. Khrushcheva was in Moscow in June, lecturing on individual
freedom and national identity, which are at the heart of her book.
Freedom, as it was understood during the Putin era, was the antithesis
of Nabokov's own understanding of the term, Khrushcheva said in an
interview.
"I think Putin stops at Dostoyevsky," she said, musing on whether
Vladimir Putin had read Nabokov. "I think Nabokov would be very
threatening to his whole worldview. He doesn't really provide for any
exceptionalism and sovereign democracy."
"The 'American' Nabokov of the second half of the twentieth century is
the most important cultural and literary phenomenon for Russia in the
first half of the twenty-first," writes Khrushcheva in the book.
[. . .]
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/