Magician's Doubts Nabokav and the Risks of Fiction

Name: Magician's Doubts Nabokav and the Risks of Fiction
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ISBN: 9780691048307

ISBN-10: 0691048304

ISBN-13: 9780691048307

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael Wood

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As a child in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov enjoyed conjuring: "I loved doing simple tricks--turning water into wine, that kind of thing." In this engrossing book Michael Wood explores the blend of arrogance and mischief that makes Nabokov such a fascinating and elusive master of fiction. Wood argues that Nabokov is neither the aesthete he liked to pretend to be nor the heavy-handed moralist recent critics make him. Major works likePnin, Lolita, Pale FireandAdaappear in a new light, but there are also chapters on earlier works, likethe Real Life of Sebastian Knight; on selected short stories; and on the translation ofEugene Onegin,as well as detailed discussions of Nabokov's ideas of literature,…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/18/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface: Tricks of Loss



Deaths of the Author



Lost Souls: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight



The Cruelty of Chance: Bend Sinister, 'Signs and Symbols', 'The Vane Sisters'



The World Without Us: Speak, Memory



The Language of Lolita



The Poem of the Past: Eugene Onegin



Pnin's Revenge



The Demons of our Pity: Pale Fire



Happy Families: Ada


Epilogue: the History of Pain


Chronology: Works by Vladimir Nabokov in English


Notes


Index