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Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Couverture rigide

Meyer, Priscilla

 
9781644693216: Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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ISBN 10 : 1644693216 ISBN 13 : 9781644693216
Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Priscilla Meyer taught Russian language and literature at Wesleyan University for 50 years, and is Professor Emerita from 2018. She is the author of Find What the Sailor has Hidden (1988), a monograph on Nabokov's Pale Fire, and How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy (2008), which was awarded the USC prize of AAASS for best book of literary and cultural studies on Russia and Eurasia in 2009. Professor Meyer received the AATSEEL award for excellence in post-secondary teaching in 2015.

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Éditeur
Academic Studies Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
russe
ISBN 10 
1644693216
ISBN 13 
9781644693216
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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