Keys to The Gift A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel [Hardcover]

Yuri Leving's Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (19341939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novels first appearance in print, the work draws from a broad spectrum of existing material in a succinct and coherent way, as well as providing innovative analyses. The first part of the monograph, The Novel, outlines the basic properties of The Gift ( plot, characters, style, and motifs) and reconstructs its internal chronology. The second part, The Text, describes the creation of the novel and the history of its publication, public and critical reaction, challenges of the English translation, and post-Soviet reception. Along with annotations to all five chapters of The Gift, the commentary provides insight into problems of paleography, featuring unique textological analysis of the novel based on the author's study of the archival copy of the manuscript.Keys to The Gift is a remarkably useful contribution to the understanding of one of Nabokovs most difficult and brilliant novels.Prof. Yuri Levings book on Nabokovs magisterial The Gift is a masterpiece in itself, the last  and definitive  word on the subject. For those wishing to embark on serious study of The Gift, Leving's Keys is a vital and invaluable starting place. In this hefty compendium Yuri Leving has assembled a stupendous amount of information about The Gift, Nabokovs ninth novel, the last to be written in Russian&.Levings Guide is&a valuable resource for teaching The Gift, enabling a visual reconstitution of Nabokovs Russian Berlin and identifying multiple layers of allusions hitherto explicated (elegantly by the amazing Dolinin) only in Russian. Yuri Levings meticulous dissection of Nabokovs last Russian novel, The Gift, fully vindicates his claim for it as one of the masterpieces ofls