Vladimir Nabokov (Palgrave Modern Novelists) - Hardcover

Rampton, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333548981 ISBN 13: 9780333548981

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993

Synopsis

Considering Vladimir Nabokov's aesthetic precepts and practice, and the distinctive character of his work, this book also considers his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyzes the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabokov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in his work.

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Book Description

Vladimir Nabokov was always a controversial writer. Long before the publication of Lolita, controversy raged over the virtues of his work. His detractors insisted that he had forsaken the humanistic concerns of the Russian literary tradition, while his supporters claimed that his work actually extended and enriched that tradition. David Rampton faces these apparent contradictions head on and tries to reach a more balanced, integrated view of the novelist's achievement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333548981
• ISBN 13: 9780333548981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152