Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
（Macmillan modern novelists）
Macmillan, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-140) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780333548981
Description
Considering Vladimir Nabokov's aesthetic precepts and practice, and the distinctive character of his work, this book also considers his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyzes the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabokov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in his work.
Table of Contents
- Lives of a young emigre - "Mary", "Glory", "The Gift"
- studies in obsession - "The Defense", "The Eye", "Laughter in the Dark", "Despair"
- experiments in mid-career - "Invitation to a Beheading", "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight", "Bend Sinister"
- the morality of the aesthete - "Lolita"
- metafictions - "Pale Fire", "Ada", "Look at the Harlequins!".
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780333549193
Description
Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyses the importance of the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabakov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in Nabakov's work.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Lives of a Young Emigr : Mary, Glory, The Gift Studies in Obsession: The Defense, The Eye, Laughter in the Dark, and Despair Experiments in Mid-Career: Invitation to a Beheading, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Bend Sinister.- The Morality of the Aesthete: Lolita Metafictions: Pale Fire, Ada, Look at the Harlequins!.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.
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