Nabokov and the Russian Diaspora

Bryan Karetnyk is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a scholar of Russian literature and culture. His research focuses on the writing of the Russian diaspora, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between literature and politics in the twentieth century. He has translated several major works by writers including Gaito Gazdanov, Boris Poplavsky and Yuri Felsen, and is the editor and principal translator of the landmark Penguin anthology Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (2017). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times and the Spectator.

• Chapter :1 Introduction.- Chapter 2: Parlor politics and open-air statements: Public and Private Responses to Bolshevism, Italian Fascism, Stalinism and Nazism.- Chapter 3: From Intellectual Response to Literary Practice: Totalitarianism and literaturnyi byt in Emigration.- Chapter 4: Totalitarian People: Poets and Dictators.- Chapter 5: Totalitarian States: Between Real and Imaginary.- Chapter 6: Totalitarian Ideas: Determinism, Philistinism and Freudianism.