Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir NabokovSteven G. Kellman, Irving Malin Rodopi, 2000 - 246 páginas From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru). |
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Página 7
... dead mother had of making a weepy face and clutching her temples when mealtime squabbles became too loud , so one day I would have to recall , with merciless , irreparable sharpness , the hurt look of my father's shoulders as he looked ...
... dead mother had of making a weepy face and clutching her temples when mealtime squabbles became too loud , so one day I would have to recall , with merciless , irreparable sharpness , the hurt look of my father's shoulders as he looked ...
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... dead to the living the story has a complex metaphorical subtext . Integral to the story's " construction " are references to Par- sifal and Orpheus that both infuse and parody Chorb's behavior . Related to the Orpheus myth is the ...
... dead to the living the story has a complex metaphorical subtext . Integral to the story's " construction " are references to Par- sifal and Orpheus that both infuse and parody Chorb's behavior . Related to the Orpheus myth is the ...
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... dead , for his sense of her spiritual presence terrifies him . The reference to Parsifal serves to enhance the sense of mystic ritualism surrounding Chorb's ordeal , but at the same time under- mines Chorb's heroic potential . Parsifal ...
... dead , for his sense of her spiritual presence terrifies him . The reference to Parsifal serves to enhance the sense of mystic ritualism surrounding Chorb's ordeal , but at the same time under- mines Chorb's heroic potential . Parsifal ...
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... dead back to life , in " Details of a Sunset , " the realm of the dead is focused upon as a force that intrudes on the living world , albeit unsuccessfully . In these early stories , Nabokov's notion of potustoronnost ( “ other worlds ...
... dead back to life , in " Details of a Sunset , " the realm of the dead is focused upon as a force that intrudes on the living world , albeit unsuccessfully . In these early stories , Nabokov's notion of potustoronnost ( “ other worlds ...
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... dead wife . The irony is that she is actually cavorting with the dead , in a sense has already committed herself to an untimely death , a fate that Kern desires but has not the courage to confront . And death seemed to him like a ...
... dead wife . The irony is that she is actually cavorting with the dead , in a sense has already committed herself to an untimely death , a fate that Kern desires but has not the courage to confront . And death seemed to him like a ...
Índice
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Nabokovs Christmas Stories | 35 |
Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokovs Music and in Lev Tol | 53 |
Mademoiselle O | 85 |
An AuthorText Interpretation | 133 |
Games of DoubleCrossing in Vladimir Nabokovs | 173 |
Nabokov and the Prism of Art | 189 |
Nabokovs Dostoyevskian | 203 |
Reading Madly | 219 |
The Vane Sisters and Nabokovs Subtle and Loving Readers | 229 |
Contributors | 245 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adamovich artistic Assistant Producer Brian Boyd character Charles Kinbote Christmas story cinematic colors consciousness critics Cynthia death describes dream Drugie Berega Easter Rain émigré English version essay Eugenia Isakovna exile eyes Fialta Forgotten Poet French text Gift governess hologram human imagery Khodasevich kov's Kreutzer Sonata language literary literature living Lolita Mademoiselle Mademoiselle's Maiden's Prayer memory metaphysical moth movie Nabo Nabokov's Dozen Nabokov's story narrative narrator narrator's novel Novodvortsev Pale Fire paragraph Paris passage Perov person poem Poems and Problems poetic poetry poshlost Pozdnyshev prose published reader reading reality Return of Chorb rhymes Russian émigré scene seems sense sentence short story Sirin Sleptsov sound Speak spirit Spring in Fialta Stikhi Stories of Vladimir story's Strong Opinions Sybil theme things tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's translation Vane Sisters Vasiliy Shishkov verse Victor vision Vladimir Nabokov Vladislav Khodasevich wife word writer York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 8 - There is, it would seem, in the dimensional scale of the world a kind of delicate meeting place between imagination and knowledge, a point, arrived at by diminishing large things and enlarging small ones, that is intrinsically artistic.
Página 5 - I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.