03734cam a2200505 i 4500 760935790 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 r 130221s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781453271674 electronic bk. 1453271678 electronic bk. c3903823-1c05-410d-9d8a-8172fb0e13e1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1231863 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)828850227 TOH eng TOH OCLCO TEFOD VALIL MMI OCLCQ TXN TxAuBib rda Pitzer, Andrea. The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov [Libby] / Andrea Pitzer. New York : Pegasus Books, 2013. 1 online resource : illustrations. txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3681kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Electronic book. Includes bibliographical references and index. A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov & rsquo;s life and works & mdash;notably Pale Fire and Lolita & mdash;bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century & rsquo;s most enigmatic authors Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics? Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art & rsquo;s sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fiction & mdash;history that has gone unnoticed for decades. Nabokov emerges as a kind of documentary conjurer, spending the most productive decades of his career recording a saga of forgotten concentration camps and searing bigotry, from World War I to the Gulag and the Holocaust. Lolita surrenders Humbert Humbert & rsquo;s secret identity, and reveals a Nabokov appalled by American anti-Semitism. The lunatic narrator of Pale Fire recalls Russian tragedies that once haunted the world. From Tsarist courts to Nazi film sets, from CIA front organizations to wartime Casablanca, the story of Nabokov & rsquo;s family is the story of his century & mdash;and both are woven inextricably into his fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Authors, Russian 20th century Biography. 20th Century. Literary. People of Color. Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union.) Biography & Autobiography Cultural Heritage. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C3903823-1C05-410D-9D8A-8172FB0E13E1 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2363-1/{C3903823-1C05-410D-9D8A-8172FB0E13E1}Img100.jpg Image https://samples.overdrive.com/secret-history-of-c39038?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/secret-history-of-c39038?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8