The Translator's Doubts - Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation (Paperback)

Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the "metaliterary" to the more recent "metaphysical" approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a "true" but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Release date:	June 2018
Authors:	Julia Trubikhina
Dimensions:	234 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-61811-829-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-61811-829-3
Barcode:	9781618118295

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