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Nabokov and his Books - Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Hardcover)
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Nabokov and his Books - Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on
the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he
had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was
imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how
Nabokov went to America and not only reinvented himself as an
American writer but also used the success of Lolita to rescue those
Russian books that had been threatened by obscurity. Using
previously unpublished and neglected material, White tells the
story of Nabokov the professional writer and how he sought to
balance his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming
American literary marketplace. As Nabokov's reputation grew so he
took greater and greater control of how his books were produced,
making the material form of the book-including forewords, blurbs,
covers-part of the novel. In his later novels, including Pale Fire,
Ada, and Transparent Things, the idea of the novelist losing
control of his work became the subject of the novels themselves.
These plots were replicated in Nabokov's own biography, as he
discovered his inability to control the forces the market success
of Lolita had unleashed. With new insights into Nabokov's life and
work, this book reconceptualises the way we think about one of the
most important and influential novelists of the twentieth century.
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