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E. J. Baumeister, Jr. (Jacket photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. xvii, [1], 233, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: Jan 28/ 2008, To John Mandel--a student of Russia and Nabokov. Nina L. Khrushcheva [the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev]. Includes Acknowledgments, Note on Transliteration and Translations; List of Abbreviations; Chronology: Works by Vladimir Sirin and Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction: Nabokov and Us; and Prologue: Nabokov's Russian Return...and Retreat. Also contains chapters on Imagining Nabokov; On the Way to the Author; Poet, Genius, and Hero. Also contains Epilogue: Nabokov as the Pushkin of the Twenty-first Century, Envoi, Notes, and Select Bibliography. Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (born 1964) is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, USA, a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New York, USA, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). The author wrote: I am in love with Vladimir Nabokov, Russian turned American author of Lolita, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory. I love him so much I went to Montreux, a resort town in Switzerland, to talk to his statue, to pay homage to this great traveler, a traveler so profound that much of his life he lived in a hotel. Combining literary criticism with political theory is often attempted and rarely done well. Nina Khrushcheva succeeds brilliantly in this highly original work. Her book deepens one's knowledge of Nabokov, Russia, and the condition of exile by mixing literary and political concerns without diminishing the importance or interest of either. In her searching, thought-provoking meditation on Vladimir Nabokov's reaction to exile from his native Russia, Dr. Khrushcheva provides unique insights into the moral and intellectual struggle going on in Russia today. Vladimir Nabokov's "Western choice"-his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution-allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a Russian living in America, finds in Nabokov's novels a useful guide for Russia's integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov's "Western" characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier. In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one's own "happy" destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, Khrushcheva contends, and Nabokov's work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders.
