The lectures of Vladimir Nabokov

Abstract

The article treats of lectures of Vladimir Nabokov delivered in the forties and the fifties of XX century in Wellesley College, Stanford University, Cornell University and Harvard University and were collected in the eighties in three books: Lectures on Literature, Lectures on Russian Literature and Lectures on Don Quixote. The lectures widely discuss works of fiction of European and Russian novelists of XIX century and the last book is dedicated Don Quixote of Cervantes.