Yuri Leving's book Train Station - Garage - Hangar: Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism, explores the poetics of movement and urban space in the oeuvre of the outstanding Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). Nabokov's works are examined from the specific point of view of poetics of urbanism, a phenomenon that the author examines within the context of Russian and European literature of the XIX - beginning of the XX century. The book encompasses a broad territory of literary modernism, exploring three major motifs: train, automobile, and plane. Nabokov's corpus is taken as the culmination of these motifs; although Nabokov was not the last to use them, and may not even have carried them as far as some other writers, they are profoundly and ourtistically embo-died in his work.
Focused on Russian literature, Yuri Leving's book is not limited to it. Train Station - Garage - Hangar offers a kind of cultural thesaurus of modern technology as reflected in literature.

ISBN 5-89059-057-X