Nabokov and the Novel / / Ellen Pifer.
Ellen Pifer challenges the widely held assumption that Nabokov is a writer more interested in literary games than in living human beings. She demonstrates how Nabokov arranges the details of his fiction to explore human psychology and moral truth, and she argues her case with style. Focusing on the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I. The Question of Character
- CHAPTER II. Consciousness, Real Life, and Fairytale Freedom: King, Queen, Knave
- CHAPTER III. Breaking the Law of Averages: Invitation to a Beheading
- CHAPTER IV. Putting Two and One Together: Bend Sinister
- CHAPTER V. Singularity and the Double’s Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire
- CHAPTER VI. The Question of Realism
- CHAPTER VII. Heaven, Hell, and the Realm of Art: Adas Dark Paradise
- CHAPTER VIII. On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism
- Notes
- Index