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The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781101870228
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101870222
ISBN-13
9781101870228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223961522
Product Key Features
Book Title
Feud : Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 20th Century, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-007056
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A shrewd, affectionate, and wildly engrossing account of one of the greatest and most ridiculous smackdowns in literary history. There came a time, in the feud between Nabokov and Wilson, when the former effected the removal from his books of blurbs written by the latter. Among the many delights of Beam's telling of the tale is his unerring acuity, in knowing the nonsense for nonsense, and the heartbreak for misery." ⎻⎻ Jill Lepore
Table Of Content
Introduction xi 1 The Beginning 3 2 Such Good Friends 19 3 Sex Doesn't Sell . . . Or Does It? 42 4 Whose Mother Is Russia Anyway? 54 5 Meet Eugene Onegin 67 6 What Hath Nabokov Wrought? 81 7 "He Is a Very Old Friend of Mine" 99 8 We Are All Pushkinists Now 113 9 Until Death Do Us Part 130 10 Just Kidding? 150 11 Why? 161 12 As I Was Saying . . . 170 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 179 Index 187
Synopsis
The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania. In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning him book reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came the worldwide best-selling novel Lolita, and the tables were turned. Suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. The feud finally erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel, Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tongs in The New York Review of Books . Nabokov counterattacked. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters flew, until the narcissism of small differences reduced their friendship to ashes. Alex Beam has fashioned this clash of literary titans into a delightful and irresistible book--a comic contretemps of a very high order and a poignant demonstration of the fragility of even the deepest of friendships. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)
LC Classification Number
PS3527.A15Z615 2016
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