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Nabokov and the Real World - Between Appreciation and Defense (Paperback)
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Nabokov and the Real World - Between Appreciation and Defense (Paperback)
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From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful
exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas,
pain, and exaltation of the human condition Admirers and detractors
of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of
literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through
his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he
devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times
about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes.
Consequently, many critics and readers have thought of him as a
writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter
shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world
and its complexities, from love and loss to exile, freedom, and the
impact of contemporary politics on our lives. In these illuminating
and exquisitely written essays, Alter spans the breadth of
Nabokov's writings, from his memoir, lectures, and short stories to
major novels such as Lolita. He demonstrates how the
self-reflexivity of Nabokov's fiction becomes a vehicle for
expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a
brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful, who cared
deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss, and who
was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort
human values. Offering timeless insights into literature's most
fabulous artificer, Nabokov and the Real World makes an elegant and
compelling case for Nabokov's relevance today.
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