The Feud Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
epub | 3.76 MB | English | Author :Alex Beam | 2016 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Book Description :

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 revie for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim Fellohip. 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...

Category : | History of Russia & Former Soviet Republics, Historical Russia Biographies, 20th Century World History