I won’t be abke to access any printed book by Nabokov for some time and I
wanted to clarify an issue. I just found news online about a lecture on Chekov
that has been posthumously published in the early eighties. There is no
reference, in the article that discusses it, to the collection of VN’s
Lectures on Russian Literature, but I’m almost certain it is to be found
therein. but with a margin of doubt that lets me wonder if it indicates an
independent publication. Can anyone confirm it?
“
Anton Chekhov's quiet and subtle humor
pervades the grayness of the lives he creates. For the Russian philosophical or
social-minded critic he was the unique exponent of a unique Russian type of
character. It is rather difficult for me to explain what that type was or is,
because it is all so linked up with the general psychological and social history
of the Russian nineteenth century. It is not quite exact to say that Chekhov
dealt in charming and ineffectual people...”