Title:
Think, write, speak : uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor
JLCTITLE245:
Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Physical Description:
xxxvii, 527 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781101874912
Abstract:
"A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the 20th century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Boyd and Tolstoy."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-509) and index.
Variant Title:
Portion of title: Uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor
Contents:
Cambridge (Essay, 1921) -- Rupert Brooke (Essay, 1921) -- Laughter and Dreams (Essay, 1923) -- Painted Wood (Essay, 1923) -- On Poetry (Review Excerpt, 1924) -- Play (Breitenstrater-Paolino) (Essay, 1925) -- Letter to the Editor, Zveno (1926) -- A Few Words on the Wretchedness of Soviet Fiction and an Attempt to Determine Its Cause (Essay, 1926) -- On Generalities (Essay, 1926) -- A. Znosko-Borovsky, Capablanca and Alekhine (Review, 1927) -- Anniversary (Essay, 1927) -- Vladislav Khodasevich, Collected Poems (Review, 1927) -- Man and Things (Essay, 1928) -- On Opera (Essay, 1928) -- Omar Khayyam / Ivan Tkhorzhevsky -- Aleksey Remizov, The Star Above Stars (Review, 1928) -- In Memory of Yuli Aykhenvald (Obituary Essay, 1928) -- Ivan Bunin, Selected Poems (Review, 1929) -- Alexander Kuprin, The Glade : Short Stories (Review, 1929) -- Questionnaire on Proust (1930) -- The Triumph of Virtue (Essay, 1930) -- International Survey on Populism (Questionnaire, 1930) -- Boris Poplavsky, Flags (Review, 1931) -- What Should Everyone Know? (Essay, 1931) -- Writers and the Era (Essay, 1931) -- Nina Berberova, The Last and the First (Review, 1931) -- In Memory of A. M. Chorny (Obituary Essay, 1932) -- Interview with Andrey Sedykh for Poslednie Novosti (1932) -- In Memory of Amalia Fondaminsky (Obituary Essay, 1937) -- Pushkin, or the True and the Seemingly True (Essay, 1937) -- Bobbs-Merrill Author Questionnaire (1937) -- Interview with Nikolay All for Novoe Russkoe Slovo (1940) -- Definitions (Essay, 1940) -- Diaghilev and a Disciple (Review, 1940) -- Crystal and Ruby (Review, 1940) -- Help, People! (Appeal, 1940) -- Mr. Masefield and Clio (Review, 1940) -- Prof. Woodbridge in an Essay on Nature Postulates the Reality of the World (Review, 1940) -- Homes for Dukhobors (Review, 1941) -- Soviet Literature 1940 (Essay, 1941) -- Faint Rose, or the Life of an Artist Who Lived in an Ivory Tower (Review, 1941) -- Interview with Beth Kulakofsky for Wellesley College News (1941) -- One Hundred Years of England in a Work Both Scholarly and Timely (Review, 1941) -- On the Occasion of M. Zheleznov's Review, Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Letter to the Editor, 1941) -- [Shakespeare, the Professors, and the People] (Review, 1941?) -- Sickle, Hammer and Gun (Review, 1041?) -- Mr. Williams' Shakespeare (Review, 1941) -- The Art of Translation, New Republic (Letter to the Editor, 1941) -- The Innocence of Hilaire Belloc (Review, 1941) -- Style (Lecture Fragment, 1941?) -- The Creative Writer (Essay, 1941) -- [On Democracy] (Essay, 1942) -- Lecture on Leonardo da Vinci (1942) -- Interview with Kathleen Lucas for Wellesley College News (1942) -- In Memory of IosifHessen (Obituary Essay, 1943) -- Interview for The Last Word (1943) -- Profile by Katherine Reese for We (1943) -- Cabbage Soup and Caviar (Review, 1944) -- On Learning Russian (Essay, 1945) -- Profile by Sylvia Crane for Wellesley College News (1945) -- The Place of Russian Studies in the Curriculum (Essay, 1948) -- Thomas Mann, "The Railway Accident" (Lecture, 1950) -- Interview with Harvey Breit for New York Times Book Review (1951) -- News Feature Interview with Malcolm D. Rivkin for Harvard Crimson (1952) -- Salutations (Seventieth Birthday Congratulations for Mark Aldanov, 1956) -- Interview with Natalia Shakhovskaya for Voice of America (1958) -- Interview in New York Post (1958) -- Interview with Martha MacGregor for New York Post (1958) -- Interview with Paul O'Neil for Life (1958) -- Interview with Gladys Kessler for Cornell Daily Sun (1958) -- Feature Story in Newsweek (1958) -- Letter to the Editor, Cornell Daily Sun (1958) -- "A G.S. Man," Cornell Daily Sun (Letter to the Editor, 1958) -- Interview with Pierre Burton and Lionel Trilling for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1958) -- Interview with Edward E. Van Dyne for Elmira Telegram (1958) -- Interview with Thomas B. Turley for Niagara Falls Gazette (1959) -- Interview with Alan Nordstrom for Ivy Magazine (1959) -- Interview with Robert H. Boyle for Sports Illustrated (1959) -- Interview with Lee Belser for Los Angeles Mirror News (1959) -- Interview with Neil Hickey for Washington Post (1959) -- Interview of Vladimir Nabokov and Alain Robbe-Grillet with Andre Parinaud, Roger Nimier, and Paul Guimard for Arts (Paris) (1959) -- Interview with J.-F. Bergery for Arts (Paris) (1959) -- Interview with Jeanine Delpech for Nouvelles Litteraires (1959) -- Interview with Pierre Mazars for Le Figaro Litteraire (1959) -- Interview with John Wain for The Observer (1959) -- Interview with Jean Duvignaud for Les Lettres Nouvelles (1959) -- Interview with Anne Guerin for UExpress (1959) -- Interview with David Holmes for BBC Radio (1959) -- Interview with John Coleman for The Spectator (1959) -- Interview with John G. Hayman for The Twentieth Century (!959) -- "Olympia Press," New York Times Book Review (Letter to the Editor, i960) -- Interview with Paul Karolus for Neue Illustrierte (1961) -- Interview with Anne Guerin for UExpress (1961) -- Interview with Janine Colombo for Ulnformation d'Israel (1961) -- Interview with Gershon Svet for Novoe Russkoe Slovo (1961) -- Interview with Rosalie Macrae for the Daily Express (1961) -- Interview with Claude Mercadie for Nice-Matin (1961) -- "Invitation to a Beheading," Esquire (Letter to the Editor, 1961) -- Interview with Phyllis Meras for Providence Sunday Journal (1962) -- Unidentified Interview (1962) -- Interview with Maurice Dolbier for New York Herald Tribune (1962) -- Interview with Lewis Nichols for New York Times Book Review (1962) -- Interview for Newsweek (1962) -- Interview for Daily Colonist (1962) -- Interview with Jacob Bronowski for Associated Rediffusion Television (1962) -- Interview with Pierrette Blanc for Tribune de Lausanne (1963) -- Interview with Henri Jaton for Radio Suisse Romande (1963) -- Letter to the Editor, Russkaya Mysl' (1963) -- Interview with M.V. for Journal de Montreux (1964) -- Interview with Douglas M. Davis for National Observer (1964) -- Interview with Horst Tappe for Die Welt (1964) -- Interview with Guy de Belleval for Journal de Geneve (1965) -- Interview with Gordon Ackerman for Weekly Tribune (1966) -- Interview with Alberto Ongaro for UEuropeo (1966) -- Interview with Penelope Gilliatt for Vogue (1966) -- Interview with Dieter E.
Zimmer for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (1966) -- Interview with Pat Garian for German Harper's Bazaar (1967) -- Interview with Drago Arsenijevic for La Tribune de Geneve (1967) -- Interview with Pierre Dommergues for Les Langues Modernes (1967-68) -- Interview with Alden Whitman for New York Times (1969) -- Interview with Roberto Tabozzi for Panorama (1969) -- Interview with Gaetano Tumiati for La Stampa (1969) -- Interview with Claudio Gorlier for Corriere delta Sera (1969) -- Interview with Constanzo Costantini for Il Messagero (1969) -- Interview with Nantas Salvalaggio for Il Giorno (1969) -- Interview with Marina Bulgherini for American Literature (1969) -- Interview with Nurit Beretzky for Ma'ariv (Tel Aviv) (1970) -- Interview with Hanspeter Riklin (1970) -- Interview with Andrew Field for His Biography (1970) -- Interview with Christopher Givan for Los Angeles Times (1970) -- Interview with Alan Levy for New York Times Magazine (1970-71) -- Homage to Franz Hellens (Birthday Tribute, 1971) -- Interview with Paul Sufrin for Swiss Broadcast (1971) -- Interview with Stephen Jan Parker (1971) -- Interview with Kurt Hoffman and Jochen Richter for Bayerischer Rundfunk (1971-72) -- Interview for New York Times (1972) -- Interview with Seth Goldschlager for Newsweek (1972) -- Interview with Claude Jannoud for Le Figaro Litteraire (1972) -- Interview with Mati Laansoo for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1973) -- Interview with Roberto Cantini for Epoca (1973) -- Interview with George Feifer for Sunday Telegraph Magazine (1974) -- Interview with Helga Chudacoff for Die Welt (1974) -- Interview with Peter Zeindler for Swiss Television (1974) -- Interview with Dieter Zimmer for Hessischer Rundfunk (1974) -- Interview with Gerald Clarke for Esquire (1974) -- Interview with Tibor Wlassics (1974) -- Interview with James Salter for People (1975) -- Mr.
Nabokov's Acceptance Speech (Essay, 1975) -- Interview with Sophie Lannes for UExpress (1975) -- Interview with Bernard Pivot for Apostrophes (1975) -- Interview with Willa Petchek for The Observer (1976) -- Authors' Authors (Questionnaire, 1976) -- Reputations Revisited (Questionnaire, 1977) -- Interview with Hugh A. Mulligan for Ithaca Post (1977) -- Interview with Robert Robinson for BBC Book Programme (1977).
Language:
In English, with some text translated from the Russian.
Chronological Term:
1900-1999