New Releases by Brian Boyd

The objective of the audit was to assess the implementation and administration of the movement limit and the Slot Management Scheme at Sydney Airport.

The objectives of the audit were to examine the development and administration by Airservices Australia of its contracts with the Solomon Islands government for upper airspace management.

Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov''s masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators, as it first appears, or one? How much is fantasy and how much is reality? Whose fantasy and whose reality are they? Brian Boyd, Nabokov''s biographer and hitherto the foremost proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a new and startlingly different solution that will permanently shift the nature of critical debate on the novel. Boyd argues that the book does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern--and more interesting than ever. In presenting his arguments, Boyd shows how Nabokov designed Pale Fire for readers to make surprising discoveries on a first reading and even more surprising discoveries on subsequent readings by following carefully prepared clues within the novel. Boyd leads the reader step-by-step through the book, gradually revealing the profound relationship between Nabokov''s ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. If Nabokov has generously planned the novel to be accessible on a first reading and yet to incorporate successive vistas of surprise, Boyd argues, it is because he thinks a deep generosity lies behind the inexhaustibility, complexity, and mystery of the world. Boyd also shows how Nabokov''s interest in discovery springs in part from his work as a scientist and scholar, and draws comparisons between the processes of readerly and scientific discovery. This is a profound, provocative, and compelling reinterpretation of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

This story begins with Cozmo, the magician''s apprentice, being set a task which involved exercising his mathematical skills. But like all good apprentices, he winds up in trouble. And this is where the adventure begins for the reader.

Lorsqu''en mai 1940, à Saint-Nazaire, Nabokov, échappant à l''occupation de la France, s''embarque pour New York, c''est un écrivain russe accompli, considéré comme le plus grand espoir de sa génération. Vingt ans plus tard on saluera en lui le plus grand écrivain américain vivant. Cette étonnante métamorphose commence à l''université de Stanford, où il est nommé professeur associé, avant d''enseigner le russe et la littérature à Wellesley College et à l''université de Cornell. Sa passion pour les papillons - il en découvrira deux espèces, dont l''une portera son nom - lui vaut aussi un poste d''entomologiste au Musée de zoologie comparée de Harvard. Mais, entre-temps, il s''est fait connaître en collaborant aux meilleures revues américaines, le New Yorker en particulier, et en publiant des souvenirs, Speak Memory (Autres rivages). Le grand public le découvre en 1957 avec Pnine, un conte gogolien tendre et comique. L''année suivante, sa notoriété devient mondiale avec Lolita, qui provoque un scandale et se vendra, en vingt ans, à quatorze millions d''exemplaires. Cet immense succès permet à Nabokov de quitter l''enseignement. Il se retire à Montreux, en Suisse, où il mourra après avoir édifié une œuvre qui, à l''image de sa vie, est un défi à la géographie et à la diversité linguistique.

A history and criticism of selections from literature written in English from the middle ages to the end of the 19th century. Includes notes for students and teachers. Suggested level: senior secondary.

Grade level: 1, 2, k, p, e, t.

Le chef du département de littérature anglaise de l''Université d''Auckland a consacré dix ans à écrire cette imposante et minutieuse biographie avec l''aide et "l''imprimatur des héritiers" de Nabokov. L''oeuvre (en deux volumes) complète, prolonge et contredit parfois les écrits autobiographiques du modèle: cf. ##Autres rivages## (Gallimard, 1961). Selon F. Bordeleau cette "biographie intellectuelle" propose à la fois une remarquable analyse de l''oeuvre et une "peut-être outrancière tentative de réhabilitation de l''homme".

The story of Nabokov''s life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

An insider''s view of the Builders Labourers Federation as it faced a Royal Commission and repeated attempts at deregulation in the 1980s. Includes a chronology of events. Written by a leading official of the BLF in the 1980s who is now an officer of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.