Day: December 11, 2024

Vladimir Nabokov and Anatomy of Russian Exile – Free Online Lecture

Vladimir Nabokov is politically relevant again. In the last decade, the theme of immigration and dissent in Russia has become as important as it was half a century ago before the Soviet Iron Curtain fell in the late 1980s. Nabokov’s Western choice originated in his political circumstances—exile to Europe and then America after the 1917 […]