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Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691211930 |
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"This book collects book includes eleven pieces about Vladimir Nabokov. A common thread connects the articles, which is an underlying sense that Nabokov's fiction resonantly addresses the realm beyond literature that we call, perhaps for want of a better term-and it is a word toward which he himself was dismissive-reality. . . . Nabokov was an existentially serious writer in the midst of being a playful one. He cared deeply about human relationships and their potential distortions, about love and the pain it often entails, and about what was happening in the larger historical theater. He firmly resisted attachment to political parties and trends. Yet he was acutely sensitive to the ways in which political ideologies could pervert or destroy human values and powerfully registered this awareness in several of his novels. His fiction poignantly conveys the burden of loss with which many must live-the loss of loved ones, of moral certainties, of homeland, of language and familiar cultural setting. In what the author has written on Nabokov, he has sought to give this large dimension of Nabokov's novels and stories more attention than it has often received"--
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691218668 |
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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 condition Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes. Consequently, many critics and readers have thought of him as a writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world and its complexities, from love and loss to exile, freedom, and the impact of contemporary politics on our lives. In these illuminating and exquisitely written essays, Alter spans the breadth of Nabokov's writings, from his memoir, lectures, and short stories to major novels such as Lolita. He demonstrates how the self-reflexivity of Nabokov's fiction becomes a vehicle for expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful, who cared deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss, and who was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort human values. Offering timeless insights into literature’s most fabulous artificer, Nabokov and the Real World makes an elegant and compelling case for Nabokov's relevance today.
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811217507 |
Download The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.
Author | : Sarah Weinman |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1474605621 |
Download The Real Lolita Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita restores Sally Horner to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691196907 |
Download Insomniac Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.
Author | : Paul Elliott Russell |
Publisher | : Cleis Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1573447196 |
Download The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a fictionalized portrait of the life of Serey Nabokov, the gay brother of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, and his struggles with his homosexuality and adventures in the salons and clubs of pre-war Europe.
Author | : S. Arber |
Publisher | : Big Tree Books |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0989152316 |
Download Nabokov's Personal Demons in the Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Pale Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's personal demons—powerful feelings of guilt and loss—that are manifested in two of his most famous novels.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307744027 |
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The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind." —The New Yorker Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Library of America Vladimir Na |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1996-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Novels 1969 1974, Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1990-04-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679727272 |
Download Bend Sinister Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.