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Lists with This Book. Nov 29, Hamish rated it really liked it Shelves: The four stars are mainly for The Event, which takes up about half the book. Someone whose style is as prose- and description-heavy as N would seem a poor candidate for writing drama, but somehow he managed to transition all the qualities you love about his novels onto the stage. The other long drama the title play predates his first novel and it's a solid, if unspectacular work. It's an interesting comparison with The Event written in the late 30s , as in the former you see some uncertain ea The four stars are mainly for The Event, which takes up about half the book.
It's an interesting comparison with The Event written in the late 30s , as in the former you see some uncertain early steps, while in the latter you see a genius whose powers are in full bloom. The two short verse dramas also predating Mary don't really do it for me, but the essays are enjoyable. Aug 03, Christopher Sutch rated it liked it.
I know he thought he could do it all, but he never really had a good grasp of the art of playwriting, let alone the translation of text into the visual realm of the theater. This volume contains four plays. The title play and two short verse dramas are very early works from the mids and can be dismissed as youthful experiments. I base this conclusion on the two essays on theater also contained in this volume, based on lectures Nabokov gave at Stanford, in which he is generally grumpy and pessimistic about the modern theater for instance, he deplores the breaking of the fourth wall: Finally, the introductions to the pieces, written by Nabokov's son and translator Dmitri, reveal the son to be even more reactionary and ridiculous than his father in many matters his deploring of the "new" violence in drama and on screen, for instance, is based on a misreading of Nabokov's second essay in this volume on Tragedy.
Feb 18, Roxana rated it liked it Shelves: Nabokov is a better writer of novels and short stories than of theatrical prose, but these are really interesting reads - particularly the brief, lovely The Grand-dad though it would read better as a short story than a theatre piece -- I can't imagine anything being gained by performance , and certain moments of The Event the absurd private eye and the metatheatrical moments, along with the truly Nabokovian ending, are marvelous.
Still, if you're not already a fan, these plays won't make a go Nabokov is a better writer of novels and short stories than of theatrical prose, but these are really interesting reads - particularly the brief, lovely The Grand-dad though it would read better as a short story than a theatre piece -- I can't imagine anything being gained by performance , and certain moments of The Event the absurd private eye and the metatheatrical moments, along with the truly Nabokovian ending, are marvelous. Still, if you're not already a fan, these plays won't make a good introduction to his work. The accompanying essays, from Nabokov's own lectures on theatre, are similarly interesting but not entirely in the way he meant.
Mostly they read like a grumpy old man deploring anything newfangled and modern, but what's really of interest in them is the fact that, while one of the best things about The Event is the porous, malleable fourth wall that allllmost is broken A worthwhile read for a Nabokov fan, but if you're only going to read one or two or ten pieces of his writing, opt for the non-theatre pieces. Jan 13, Adam rated it liked it. Feb 10, Katja rated it it was ok. Harvey Click rated it liked it Nov 14, Rodney Welch rated it really liked it Nov 18, Andrew rated it liked it Apr 17, Michael Lloyd-Billington rated it really liked it Sep 25, Jesse K rated it it was amazing May 24, Hanny rated it it was ok Nov 21,