Vladimir Nabokov - Couverture rigide

Rampton, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333548981 ISBN 13 : 9780333548981

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1993

Synopsis

Considering Vladimir Nabokov's aesthetic precepts and practice, and the distinctive character of his work, this book also considers his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyzes the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabokov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in his work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Vladimir Nabokov was always a controversial writer. Long before the furore that attended the publication of Lolita, controversy raged over the virtues of his work. His detractors insisted that, although he wrote nine Russian novels, he had forsaken the humanistic concerns of the Russian literary tradition, while his supporters claimed that his work actually extended and enriched that tradition. David Rampton faces these apparent contradictions head on and, adopting a more detached, critical perspective than is usually found in writing on Nabokov, he tries to reach a more balanced, integrated view of the novelist's achievement. Rampton assembles evidence from Nabokov's own critical writings to show that the relationship of art to human life is central to Nabokov's work. He pursues this argument through a close reading of novels from different stages of Nabokov's career. What emerges is a provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of twentieth-century literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333548981
• ISBN 13: 9780333548981
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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