Brian Boyd
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Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov. An upcoming work, On the Origin of Stories, will be informed by Darwinian literary studies. Other forthcoming books include a critical study of William Shakespeare and a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper.
He has stated that he has gained access to the manuscript of The Original of Laura, Nabokov's unpublished final novel, and read it in its entirety.[1]
[edit] Major works
- Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985)
- Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990)
- Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991)
- Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (1999)
[edit] References
- ^ Rosenbaum, Ron. "Dmitri Nabokov turns to his dead father for advice on whether to burn the author's last, unpublished manuscript.", Slate, February 27, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
[edit] External links
- Staff homepage
- Ada Online - Annotations to Nabokov's novel by Boyd.
- "Shade and Shape in Pale Fire" - A somewhat controversial essay on Nabokov's novel.
- A 2000 interview - Conducted by Thomas Bolt.
- 1991 interview on Vladimir Nabokov with Brian Boyd by Don Swaim at Wired for Books.
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