Citation:
Collins, Emily. "Podvig". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 January 2007
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2755, accessed 18 October 2018.]
Vladimir Nabokov: Podvig [Glory] (1697 words)
Emily Collins (University of Bristol)
- Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
- The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
- Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Tromso)
Context
Glory’s title, both in Russian [Podvig] and in English, indicates its relationship
to chivalric ideals of the knightly quest. Written in Russian in
1930, while Nabokov was living in Berlin, and first published
serially in 1931-32, the novel was given at least three tentative
titles before Nabokov (then writing as “Sirin”) arrived at
Podvig (“Deed” or “Exploit”). Two
of these, Zolotoi vek (“Golden
Age”) and Romanticheskii vek
(“Romantic Times”) indicate the centrality of chivalric romance to
the novel. But Nabokov’s first working title invokes rather the
idea of completion, of triumphant …
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