Nabokov's Novels in English

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University of Georgia Press, 1 mars 2010 - 192 pages

Lucy Maddox's sensitive treatment of Nabokov's eight finished novels written in English—Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! and Pnin—approaches the novelist's work as significant fiction with its own integrity. Maddox provides the kind of discursive introduction that makes Nabokov's complex work more accessible, focusing on the relationship between the eccentric, artificial structures of the novels and their deeply traditional, humanistic themes. While the forms of the novels are idiosyncratic and often bizarre, says Maddox, the texts themselves are neither unfamiliar nor eccentric. Repeatedly the text is the frustration of desire or loss, which is for Nabokov the most agonizing and inescapable of human experiences. Maddox also traces through all eight novels the development of Nabokov's style, which she treats as a matter of both technique and vision.

 

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Table des matières

Introduction
1
One Pale Fire
14
Two The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
35
Three Bend Sinister
50
Seven Transparent Things
130
Eight Look at the Harlequins
142
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Expressions et termes fréquents

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À propos de l'auteur (2010)

Lucy Maddox is a professor in the department of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of several books including Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs and Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreNabokov's Novels in English
AuteurLucy Maddox
Éditionréimprimée
ÉditeurUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010
ISBN0820334898, 9780820334899
Longueur192 pages
  
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