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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... existence , and it is his characters ' varying relationships to these " other sides , " in what Poe describes as a " posthumous dialogue among shades , " 20 that develops into a central theme of his work . Dream is a conventional means ...
... existence , and it is his characters ' varying relationships to these " other sides , " in what Poe describes as a " posthumous dialogue among shades , " 20 that develops into a central theme of his work . Dream is a conventional means ...
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... existence can only ultimately be destructive . As in " The Return of Chorb , " the denouements of these two stories are signalled by a sudden shift in the narrative focus , but not to the effect of distancing the reader . Rather ...
... existence can only ultimately be destructive . As in " The Return of Chorb , " the denouements of these two stories are signalled by a sudden shift in the narrative focus , but not to the effect of distancing the reader . Rather ...
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... existence is emphasized by Monfiori's morbid fascination with potential suicides . Kern's stumbling ineptitude echoes that of Chorb , whilst Isabel's terrifying ordeal at the hands of some monstrous , demonic creature only serves to ...
... existence is emphasized by Monfiori's morbid fascination with potential suicides . Kern's stumbling ineptitude echoes that of Chorb , whilst Isabel's terrifying ordeal at the hands of some monstrous , demonic creature only serves to ...
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... existence that has made his real life seem pale and ephe- meral in comparison . ... when we met the pace of life altered at once , all its atoms were recom- bined , and we lived in another , lighter time - medium , which was measured ...
... existence that has made his real life seem pale and ephe- meral in comparison . ... when we met the pace of life altered at once , all its atoms were recom- bined , and we lived in another , lighter time - medium , which was measured ...
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... existence is not a shifting riddle " ( " Net , bytie - ne zybkaia zagadka ! " ) contains the phrase " We are caterpillars of angels " and it extends the image for an entire stanza ( Stikhi 105 ) . his moment of sheer terror has passed ...
... existence is not a shifting riddle " ( " Net , bytie - ne zybkaia zagadka ! " ) contains the phrase " We are caterpillars of angels " and it extends the image for an entire stanza ( Stikhi 105 ) . his moment of sheer terror has passed ...
Índice
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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 203 - Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.
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 166 - My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses — the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions — which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.
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.
Página 184 - ... real" audiences in pictures. The dovetailing of one phantasm into another produced upon a sensitive person the impression of living in a Hall of Mirrors, or rather a prison of mirrors, and not even knowing which was the glass and which was yourself.