Nabokov and the real world : between appreciation and defense / Robert Alter.

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 t...

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Main Author: Alter, Robert (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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Physical Description:viii, 232 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Between appreciation and defense -- Not reading the papers -- Lolita now -- Nabokov's game of worlds -- Autobiography as alchemy in Pale Fire -- Ada, or the perils of paradise -- Nabokov for those who hate him: the curious case of Pnin -- Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov and the art of politics -- Nabokov and memory -- Lectures on literature -- Style in the novel, style in Nabokov, and the question of translation. 
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