Nabokov in Motion

Adopting the modernist master<i></i>Vladimir Nabokov as its guide <i> Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement</i>is an exploration of the radically changing social historical technological and literary culture of the early 20th century a time when modes of communication and transportation especially were changing society in drastic and profound ways.<br/><br/>Across seventy microchapters that are by turn serious ironic informative and playful and which take on topics such as automobiles trains airplanes electricity elevators advertisements telegraphs and telephones Yuri Leving offers new ways to understand Nabokov Russian literature and technology modernism and world material culture. Nabokov's writings are analyzed against a broad context of prose and poetry and from the point of view of what Leving calls the poetics of urbanism in literature. <br/><br/><i>Nabokov in Motion</i> is a ground-breaking exploration of urban and material themes in literature and creates a complex and vibrant cultural fabric of which Nabokov is the master weaver.