Nabokov's Novels in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nabokov's Novels in English write by Lucy Maddox. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Nabokov's Novels in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lucy Maddox's sensitive treatment of Nabokov's eight finished novels written in English—Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! and Pnin—approaches the novelist's work as significant fiction with its own integrity. Maddox provides the kind of discursive introduction that makes Nabokov's complex work more accessible, focusing on the relationship between the eccentric, artificial structures of the novels and their deeply traditional, humanistic themes. While the forms of the novels are idiosyncratic and often bizarre, says Maddox, the texts themselves are neither unfamiliar nor eccentric. Repeatedly the text is the frustration of desire or loss, which is for Nabokov the most agonizing and inescapable of human experiences. Maddox also traces through all eight novels the development of Nabokov's style, which she treats as a matter of both technique and vision.
Nabokov and His Fiction
Nabokov and His Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nabokov and His Fiction write by Julian W. Connolly. This book was released on 1999-08-05. Nabokov and His Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in 1999 to mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches, from close readings of major texts, including Speak, Memory and Pale Fire, to penetrating discussions of the significant relationship between Nabokov's personal beliefs and experiences and his art. Several of the essays attempt to uncover the artistic principles that underlie the author's literary creations, while others seek to place Nabokov's work in a variety of literary and cultural contexts. Among these essays are a first glimpse at a little-known work, The Tragedy of Mr Morn, as well as a perspective on Nabokov's most famous novel, Lolita. The volume as a whole offers valuable insight into Nabokov scholarship.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pale Fire write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2024-02-18. Pale Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Fiction write by David Lodge. This book was released on 2012-04-30. The Art of Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Selected Letters, 1940–1977
Selected Letters, 1940–1977 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Letters, 1940–1977 write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Selected Letters, 1940–1977 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike
