That other world : Nabokov and the puzzle of exile
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書誌事項
That other world : Nabokov and the puzzle of exile
Yale University Press, c2019
- : hardcover
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注記
Translated from the Persian
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The foundational text for the acclaimed international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran
"Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning."-Kirkus Reviews
The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation's foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet's death and announces the critic's secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov's enchanters-Humbert-is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past.
In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov's characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov's experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader's quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.
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