Curso de literatura europea

Vladimir Nabokov, far from generalities and theorizations, teaches his students to "caress the details" and become passionate about reading Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, Proust, Flaubert, Joyce and Kakfa. These passionate and exciting lessons, later reconstructed by Fredson Bowers from the teacher's notes, are a unique opportunity to re-read in depth the great novels of European literature. For almost two decades, before reaching celebrity with Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov taught literature courses at the American universities of Wellesley and Cornell, and his classes have become a legend. It is not often that students have one of the best authors of the moment as their teacher, but neither is it so that a novelist adds to his talent such a clear and effective didactic vocation, and so free from academic conventions.