Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at
Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of
literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar
investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction.
According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov's
concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely
if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of
ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human
element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme
of Nabokov's and that the tension between technique and content is
itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision,
Toker's book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that
is one of her subject's own favored devices.
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