Full Description
Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyses the importance of the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabakov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in Nabakov's work.
Contents
Introduction
Lives of a Young Emigr : Mary, Glory, The Gift Studies in Obsession: The Defense, The Eye, Laughter in the Dark, and Despair Experiments in Mid-Career: Invitation to a Beheading, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Bend Sinister
The Morality of the Aesthete: Lolita Metafictions: Pale Fire, Ada, Look at the Harlequins!
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.
