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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811217507

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811206440

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811203271

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

Biographer follows an elusive trail across Europe and uncovers the secret of a Russian woman who had ruined the life of his half-brother, an English novelist.

Nabokov and Indeterminacy

Author : Priscilla Meyer
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810137455

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Nabokov and Indeterminacy by Priscilla Meyer Pdf

In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov’s early novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight illuminates his later work. Meyer first focuses on Sebastian Knight, exploring how Nabokov associates his characters with systems of subtextual references to Russian, British, and American literary and philosophical works. She then turns to Lolita and Pale Fire, applying these insights to show that these later novels clearly differentiate the characters through subtextual references, and that Sebastian Knight’s construction models that of Pale Fire. Meyer argues that the dialogue Nabokov constructs among subtexts explores his central concern: the continued existence of the spirit beyond bodily death. She suggests that because Nabokov’s art was a quest for an unattainable knowledge of the otherworldly, knowledge which can never be conclusive, Nabokov’s novels are never closed in plot, theme, or resolution—they take as their hidden theme the unfinalizability that Bakhtin says characterizes all novels. The conclusions of Nabokov's novels demand a rereading, and each rereading yields a different novel. 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.

Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87)

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Library of America Vladimir Na
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038128685

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Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87) by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Novels 1969 1974, Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins.

Pnin

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787477

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. “Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.

Nabokov's Butterflies

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0807085405

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Nabokov's Butterflies by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Readings

Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 0253338247

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Readings by Michael Dirda Pdf

In these playful, erudite, and idiosyncratically personal essays from the Washington Post Book World, Michael Dirda shares some of the pleasures of the reading life. His subjects range from classics in translation to fantasy and crime fiction; from children's books to American and European literature; from innovative writing to neglected novels; from the dark joys of collecting first editions to the untroubled pleasure of P. G. Wodehouse. Dirda is a writer's reader and a reader's writer. He is a sure guide to good reading from the casual to the scholarly, and his columns are always diverting and informative, always worth coming back to. Readings presents many of his most memorable essays, including "The Crime of His Life" (a youthful caper), "Bookman's Saturday" (the scheming of a book collector), an annotated list of 100 comic novels, "Heian Holiday" (on The Tale of Genji), reflections on sex in literature, "Mr. Wright" (an exemplary high school teacher), "Listening to My Father," "Turning Fifty," and "Millennial Readings." In all these, and in 40 other pieces, Michael Dirda shows us books as sources of aesthetic bliss, comfort, and not least, amusement.

Nabokov's Otherworld

Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861712

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Nabokov's Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov Pdf

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Beginning with Nabokov's discursive writings, Vladimir Alexandrov finds his world view centered on the experience of epiphany--characterized by a sudden fusion of varied sensory data and memories, a feeling of timelessness, and an intuition of immortality--which grants the true artist intimations of an "otherworld." Readings of The Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, and Pale Fire reveal the epiphanic experience to be a touchstone for the characters' metaphysical insightfulness, moral makeup, and aesthetic sensibility, and to be a structural model for how the narratives themselves are fashioned and for the nature of the reader's involvement with the text. In his conclusion, Alexandrov outlines several of Nabokov's possible intellectual and artistic debts to the brilliant and variegated culture that flourished in Russia on the eve of the Revolution. Nabokov emerges as less alienated from Russian culture than most of his emigre readers believed, and as less "modernist" than many of his Western readers still imagine. "Alexandrov's work is distinctive in that it applies an `otherworld' hypothesis as a consistent context to Nabokov's novels. The approach is obviously a fruitful one. Alexandrov is innovative in rooting Nabokov's ethics and aesthetics in the otherwordly and contributes greatly to Nabokov studies by examining certain key terms such as `commonsense,' `nature,' and `artifice.' In general Alexandrov's study leads to a much clearer understanding of Nabokov's metaphysics."--D. Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Author : Paul Elliott Russell
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573447195

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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Elliott Russell Pdf

Presents a fictionalized portrait of the life of Serey Nabokov, the gay brother of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, and his struggles with his homosexuality and adventures in the salons and clubs of pre-war Europe.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787583

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career, the second one in such a disastrous way. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with a few scanty clues in the novelist's private papers. His search proves to be a story as intriguing as any of his subject's own novels, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding.

Vintage Nabokov

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400034017

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Vintage Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from his memoir Speak, Memory.

The Great Gatsby

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Despair

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008915145

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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov

Author : Barbara Straumann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748636471

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Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov by Barbara Straumann Pdf

This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.