Gavriel Shapiro

Thanksgiving All Year Round (eBook, PDF)

A Memoir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book describes the author's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents. Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University. His major publications include Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993), Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov's 'Invitation to a Beheading' (1998), (ed.) Nabokov at Cornell (2003), The Sublime Artist's Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009), and The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father (2014).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618115065
• Artikelnr.: 45989878

Autorenporträt

Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University. His major publications include Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993), Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov¿s ¿Invitation to a Beheading¿ (1998), (ed.) Nabokov at Cornell (2003), The Sublime Artist¿s Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009), and The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Ancestry
2. Immediate Family
3. Growing Up in Postwar Soviet Russia
4. Emergence of National Awareness and the Struggle for Immigration to
Israel
5. Arrest, Imprisonment, Trial, and Aftermath
6. Life in Israel
7. Graduate Studies in the United States
8. Living, Teaching, and Writing in America
Afterword
Index