Zina's Paradox
The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift
One of the century's greatest Russian novels, Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift still continues to baffle new readers with its playfully unstable narration, its temporal shifts, and its huge inserted opus, The Life of Chernyshevski. This study, the first monograph on Nabokov's last Russian novel, explores the connections between the narrative's structural difficulties and its most pressing thematic concerns: love and self-transcendence. In a departure from traditional approaches to The Gift, Blackwell places Zina's role as a loving, collaborating audience at the very center of the novel's significance. This non-heroine, according to Nabokov, turns…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8204-4883-1
- EAN: 9780820448831
- Produktnummer: 19044294
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 215 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 429 g
- Gewicht: 429
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The Author: Stephen H. Blackwell is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published several articles on Nabokov.
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