The Gift, Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift, Vladimir Nabokov
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The Gift

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 15 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2011

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write—a book very much like The Gift itself.

About Vladimir Nabokov

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 20, 2021

The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov’s best novel written in Russian – dense, voluminous, multifaceted, multilayered, multilevel, nostalgic, linguistically splendid and most beautiful. Then, when I fell under the spell of butterflies, something unfolded in my soul and I relived all my father’s journeys, as i......more

Goodreads review by Manny on November 03, 2015

I don't think I know enough about Russian literature to properly get this book, but it did have some great moments. One in particular that I'm often reminded of whenever people on either side of the religion/skepticism debate start saying that things are "obvious". A character is in the middle of an......more

Goodreads review by Ian on December 28, 2021

CRITIQUE ["WORKIN' ON MYSTERIES WITHOUT ANY CLUES"]: Random Collection Of Consonants As soon as I started "The Gift", I realised that it was so long since I'd read any serious Russian literature (my reading life started with Gogol and Turgenev, followed shortly after by Laurence Sterne), that I was no......more

Goodreads review by Olga on February 01, 2023

Reading 'The Gift' was an unforgettable mind-blowing experience. I haven't read some of Nabokov's works yet, so to me 'The Gift' is the most impressive work among the ones I have. To me Nabokov is the Writer par excellence. Although the beauty, sophistication and complexity of his prose might be los......more

Goodreads review by Nelson on March 28, 2018

Não é um livro fácil e as razões para tal são várias — a estrutura é multilinear e descontínua; a forma é poética e de vocabulário rico mas escrito como torrente descritiva; e o contexto exigido é não só enorme como distante da maioria dos leitores contemporâneos. Não acontece muito, ou quase nada,......more

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