Curso de literatura rusa

Master classes in which Nabokov, a genius of literature, investigates the work of the great writers of the past. Vladimir Nabokov, exiled from his country and with Little hope of returning one day, he was trained like no one else to introduce his students to the work of the great Russian masters: Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Gorky, Dostoyevsky, or Chekhov. Those passionate and controversial lessons, reconstructed by Fredson Bowers from the writer's notes, are a unique opportunity to attend his classes and re-read 19th century Russian literature in depth. Throughout almost Two decades before Vladimir Nabokov rose to fame with Lolita, he taught literature at the American universities of Wellesley and Cornell, and his classes have become legendary. It is not often that students have one of the best authors of the moment as their teacher, but also that a novelist adds to his talent such a clear and effective teaching vocation, and so free from academic conventions.