Nabokov and the Real World : : Between Appreciation and Defense / / Robert Alter.
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Nabokov and the real world
- 1 Between Appreciation and Defense
- 2 Not Reading the Papers
- 3 Lolita Now
- 4 Nabokov’s Game of Worlds
- 5 Autobiography as Alchemy in Pale Fire
- 6 Ada, or the Perils of Paradise
- 7 Nabokov for Those Who Hate Him: The Curious Case of Pnin
- 8 Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov and the Art of Politics
- 9 Nabokov and Memory
- 10 Lectures on Literature
- 11 Style in the Novel, Style in Nabokov, and the Question of Translation
- Notes
- Sources
- Index