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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... short fiction as that he or she will write compellingly in more than one language . Anton Chekhov , a genius of the short story , felt little compulsion to novelize , and it is not short fiction that accounts for Jane Austen's ...
... short fiction as that he or she will write compellingly in more than one language . Anton Chekhov , a genius of the short story , felt little compulsion to novelize , and it is not short fiction that accounts for Jane Austen's ...
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... short fiction and a symbol of our conviction that it deserves more . TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Memory and Dream in Nabokov's Short 2.
... short fiction and a symbol of our conviction that it deserves more . TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Memory and Dream in Nabokov's Short 2.
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... Short Fiction Barbara Wyllie . . . 5 Nabokov's Approach to the Supernatural in the Early Stories Julian W. Connolly 21 Nabokov's Christmas Stories R.H.W. Dillard . 35 Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's " Music " and in Lev Tol ...
... Short Fiction Barbara Wyllie . . . 5 Nabokov's Approach to the Supernatural in the Early Stories Julian W. Connolly 21 Nabokov's Christmas Stories R.H.W. Dillard . 35 Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's " Music " and in Lev Tol ...
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... SHORT FICTION " The artist observes , chooses , guesses , combines - these acts in themselves presuppose a problem ; if he has not put this problem to himself from the very beginning , then there will be nothing to guess and no choice ...
... SHORT FICTION " The artist observes , chooses , guesses , combines - these acts in themselves presuppose a problem ; if he has not put this problem to himself from the very beginning , then there will be nothing to guess and no choice ...
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... short fiction characters experience sleeping and waking dreams . Both have the potential for revelation , either exposing a latent aspect of a character's personality which has gone unacknowledged , or signalling the pre- sence of a ...
... short fiction characters experience sleeping and waking dreams . Both have the potential for revelation , either exposing a latent aspect of a character's personality which has gone unacknowledged , or signalling the pre- sence of 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.