Three major immigrant writers

Vladimir Nabokov (1899- 1977) is recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the 20th century. As an immigrant writer, he brought European aristocratic taste and traditional cultivation into American culture, and held a profound and sophisticated critical and ironic vision, which made his works have a special cultural flavor. Good at satire, nostalgia and parody; At the same time, he pays attention to the tempering of language. With his extensive knowledge and literary accomplishment, he has formed an English style that British and American writers admire.

Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg on April 23rd, 1899. During the Bolshevik Revolution, Nabokov went into exile in Germany with his family in 19 19. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College of Cambridge University, he began his literary career in Berlin and Paris for 18 years. 1940, Nabokov moved to the United States and taught at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell and Harvard universities. As a novelist, poet, critic and translator, Nabokov enjoys a great reputation in the literary world. He has written such novels as Signs of Obsession, Lolita, Puning and Dim Fire. 1September 1955 15, Nabokov's most famous work Lolita was published by Paris Olympia Publishing House and caused controversy. Nabokov 196 1 moved to Montreux, Switzerland; He died in Lausanne on July 2, 1977.