英华人文系列讲座第117讲
讲座题目:Letters to a Jewish Muse: The Life of Vladimir Nabokov and Véra Slonim as Literature and History
讲座人:Prof. Dr. Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College, USA)
主持人:乔国强教授
时间:3月5日周一下午15:15~17:00
地点:虹口校区英伦厅
主办单位:英语学院
内容简介:
The captivating story of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Véra Nabokov (née Slonim, 1902-1991)—a story of love, marriage and mutual enrichment—begins in Berlin in the early 1920s and unfolds on two continents and in five languages. In his lecture the American author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer, author of the international bestseller Bunin and Nabokov: A History of Rivalry, will touch on key questions of Jewish, Russian, and American culture and history. Based on archival materials, Shrayer's lecture will focus on the dynamics of the so-called mixed marriages, as well as the boundaries of modern Jewish culture.
讲座人简介:
Maxim D. Shrayer, a bilingual author, scholar and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry at Harvard's Davis Center. Born in Moscow in 1967 to a writer’s family, Shrayer emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored fifteen books in English and Russian, among them the internationally acclaimed memoirs “Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story” and “Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration,” the story collection “Yom Kippur in Amsterdam,” and the Holocaust study “I SAW IT.” Shrayer’s “Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature” won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit Shrayer’s website at www.shrayer.com