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Carte Nabokov and Indeterminacy Priscilla Meyer

Nabokov and Indeterminacy

The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Autor: Priscilla Meyer
Limbă: rusă
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov's early novel The Real Life...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Priscilla Meyer
Limbă
rusă
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2020
Pagini
274
EAN
9781644693216
Enbook ID
44379348
Editura
Academic Studies Press
Greutate
535
Dimensiuni
152 x 228

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In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov's early novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight illuminates his later work.
Is there life after death? Can we attain any knowledge about the otherworld? Nabokov explores this question through his personal tragedy of having to become an English-language novelist after writing nine novels in Russian. Through connections to English-language writers such as Nathanael Hawthorne, Henry James, William James and many others, Nabokov's ghost story of the half-brothers Sebastian and V. approaches the brink from which the unknowable can be dimly glimpsed.
The novel's ambiguous conclusion demands a rereading, which leads to an ever-deepening approach to the unknowable, using methods Nabokov later deploys in Lolita and Pale Fire. The reader can never get back to the same beginning, never attain a conclusion, and instead becomes an adept of Nabokov's quest. Meyer emphasizes that, unlike much postmodern fiction, the contradictions created by Nabokov's multiple paths do not imply that existence is constructed arbitrarily of pre-existing fragments, but rather that these fragments lead to an ever-deepening approach to the unknowable.

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