Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense, Paperback - Robert Alter

Reducere. From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation ...

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Frances SpaldingIllustration(s): 147 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022D...

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): H PostonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 188 x 18Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely m...

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Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only...

Reducere. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, rei...

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Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Ray StoeveNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 208 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescope...

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Publisher: Paul H. Crompton LtdAuthor(s): George GurdjieffNumber of pages: 294Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 240 x 161 x 31Cover type: HardbackR...

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Shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. Dana Dragunoiu reads Nabokov's fictional worlds as battlegrounds between...