6/7/2023 0 Comments The gift by vladimir nabokov![]() ![]() His book is deep and probing only where it’s warranted. ![]() Nabokov’s brilliant novel requires an expertly researched book, but one that’s especially lucid, organized, and readable too. Leving’s guide Keys to The Gift is an invaluable and comprehensive companion that doesn’t only help the reader keep together plot lines, but reveals the secret to all the novel’s various enigmas-multilingual word play, hidden signs and symbols, and literary and historical references and allusions. Nabokov draws from his encyclopaedic knowledge of Russia’s historic and contemporary writers and literary critics to prove his love stems from a place of great depth. It is his ninth and final novel written originally in Russian, and is considered to be the high point of these novels, as well as one of his most complicated overall. ![]() The Gift is Nabokov’s passionate and complex love song devoted to Russian literature. He got me hooked on Nabokov, so I was excited when Leving’s new book on a major Nabokov novel was released last year. I was a student in Yuri Leving’s Survey of Russian Literature class at Dalhousie University in 2007. Reviewed in this essay: Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel, by Yuri Leving. ![]()
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