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Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are Nabokov's English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals, as well as three never-before-published poems written in English by Nabokov himself. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation.
First publish date: 2007
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
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