Lectures on Russian literature

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Crime and Punishment (1866) 74 — "Memoirs from a Mousebole" (1864) 77 — The Idiot (1868) 84 —

The Possessed (1872) 85 — The Brothers Karamazov (1880) 87

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) 91

Anna Karenin (1877) 92 — The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884-1886) 148

ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) 153

"The Lady with the Little Dog" (1899) 159 — "In the Gully" (1900) 164 — Notes on The Seagull (1896) 175

MAXIM GORKI (1868-1936) 183

"On the Rafts" (1895) 188

Philistines and Philistinism 191

The Art Of Translation 195

L'Envoi 199

APPENDIX: Nabokov's notes for an exam on Russian literature 201

The editor and publisher are indebted to Simon Karlinsky, Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, for his careful checking of the lectures and his advice on transliterations. Professor Kar-linsky's assistance has been crucial to this volume.

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