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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... Poet " : Nabokov's Dostoyevskian Row Brian Walter . . 203 Reading Madly Irving Malin 219 " The Vane Sisters " and Nabokov's " Subtle and Loving " Readers Linda Wagner - Martin . . 229 Contributors 245 Barbara Wyllie MEMORY AND DREAM IN ...
... Poet " : Nabokov's Dostoyevskian Row Brian Walter . . 203 Reading Madly Irving Malin 219 " The Vane Sisters " and Nabokov's " Subtle and Loving " Readers Linda Wagner - Martin . . 229 Contributors 245 Barbara Wyllie MEMORY AND DREAM IN ...
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... poet whose life is made up of a series of dream states , punctuated occasionally by the crude demands of reality . The story dramatizes the momentary inci- dent when Grisha discovers the means of harnessing memory and transforming it ...
... poet whose life is made up of a series of dream states , punctuated occasionally by the crude demands of reality . The story dramatizes the momentary inci- dent when Grisha discovers the means of harnessing memory and transforming it ...
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... poet in " Torpid Smoke , " Ivanov's misfortune is that he is not an artist , and his indulgence in solipsistic reverie is not a necessary step towards revelation , but a means of evading reality . It provides a transitory escape that ...
... poet in " Torpid Smoke , " Ivanov's misfortune is that he is not an artist , and his indulgence in solipsistic reverie is not a necessary step towards revelation , but a means of evading reality . It provides a transitory escape that ...
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... poetic sensibility . A drab , provincial American town is transformed into a fascinating , vibrant , magical world by the pro- fessor's description . His vision borders on delirious hallucination ; he succumbs to the hypnotizing effect ...
... poetic sensibility . A drab , provincial American town is transformed into a fascinating , vibrant , magical world by the pro- fessor's description . His vision borders on delirious hallucination ; he succumbs to the hypnotizing effect ...
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... poetry of the late 1910s and early 1920s ( Poems and Problems 13 ) . By this he meant the use of religious imagery and figures , including angels , to convey his vision of earthly life and its relationship to the trans- cendent . One ...
... poetry of the late 1910s and early 1920s ( Poems and Problems 13 ) . By this he meant the use of religious imagery and figures , including angels , to convey his vision of earthly life and its relationship to the trans- cendent . One ...
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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.