Vladimir Nabokov, The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Sigrun Frank (University of Oxford)

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 (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1923 - 1938

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Save to Bookshelf

Vladimir Nabokov is far better known for his novels than for his plays. This might partly be explained by the fact that, in comparison to his novels, Nabokov’s dramatic output was rather meagre: three completed verse plays and three prose dramas, all of which were written during his Russian language period as an émigré in Germany and France. After his departure to America in 1940, the writer himself seems to have lost interest in his dramas. He only translated one of the plays,

The Waltz Invention

, into English. Most of his dramas are only available to the English reader through the translations of Dmitri Nabokov, who after his father’s death collected four plays -

The Man from the USSR

(

Chelovek iz SSSR

The Event

(

Sobytie

The Pole

(

Polius

) and

The Grand-dad

(

Dedushka

) - in the…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

2130 words

Citation: Frank, Sigrun. "The Man from the USSR and Other Plays". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 September 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=246, accessed 22 November 2024.]

Vladimir Nabokov, The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Dates

Places

Genres and Modes

Resources

Save this article

Leave Feedback