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.
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