Lectures on foreign literature / Per. with English. edited by Kharitonov V. A; preface to the Russian edition of A. G. Bitova . - M. Published by Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 1998. — 512 s. Circulation of 7,000 copies. Format 84x108/32. — (Literary Studies Series). - Prel. Nabokov V. In. "Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra" . — ISBN 5-86712-042-2 . There are books... who affect the consciousness of a whole literary generation, put their stamp on the century,” wrote Nina Berberova. Lectures on foreign literature by Vladimir Nabokov confirm this thesis twice: first, because every hero of Nabokov’s reasoning be it Joyce or Flaubert really left an imprint in the destinies of literary generations. Secondly, Nabokov’s book itself is worthy of a similar attitude: for all its brilliance and short-sightedness, lectures amaze with artistic observation, which is characteristic only of large writers. Lectures on foreign literature, read in the fifties to American students, a separate book in Russia are published for the first time.