Mailer, Nabokov, and the Amerussia / US-SU Phenomenon

Authors

  • Victor Peppard University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Vladimir Nabokov, Harlot’s Ghost, Ada, Russia and America, Cold War, émigré identity

Abstract

Vladimir Nabokov and Norman Mailer were both battlers, each in his own way. Mailer battled in public fervently and frequently, and he took on all kinds of causes, issues, people, God, the Devil, the society and polity at large, and other writers. This essay examines the complex intersections between Mailer and Nabokov.

Author Biography

  • Victor Peppard, University of South Florida

    Victor Peppard is Professor of Russian at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he has taught since 1975 and was chair of World Languages from 2000 to 2011. He received a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1974 and taught Russian at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 1973 and 1974. Peppard has published on Russian language pedagogy and on such writers as Isaak Babel’, Gogol’, Dostoevsky, Norman Mailer, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Yury Olesha, and Vladimir Voinovich, as well as on the history of Russian and Soviet sport. He has also published several short stories.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Peppard, Victor. “Mailer, Nabokov, and the Amerussia US-SU Phenomenon”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 133–147, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/518.