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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... things and enlarging small ones , that is intrinsically artistic . 12 For Nabokov memory provided a means of eternalizing the past and negating the regressive cycles of time . In Nabokov's fiction , creative imagination consists of a ...
... things and enlarging small ones , that is intrinsically artistic . 12 For Nabokov memory provided a means of eternalizing the past and negating the regressive cycles of time . In Nabokov's fiction , creative imagination consists of a ...
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... things in this story that generates its pathos and its gentle irony , but more importantly , reveals the means by which an individual can not only release himself from the destructive anguish of grief , but also transcend time by ...
... things in this story that generates its pathos and its gentle irony , but more importantly , reveals the means by which an individual can not only release himself from the destructive anguish of grief , but also transcend time by ...
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... things that might have happened once upon a time , or drifted past quite close to him in life's field of vision , or else had appeared to him in a recent dream.26 23 Ibid . , p . 83 . 24 Ibid . , p . 83 . 25 " Perfection " in Stories ...
... things that might have happened once upon a time , or drifted past quite close to him in life's field of vision , or else had appeared to him in a recent dream.26 23 Ibid . , p . 83 . 24 Ibid . , p . 83 . 25 " Perfection " in Stories ...
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... thing in her that reflects his own semi - transcendent state , whilst being as intangible and distant as the ghost of his dead wife . The irony is that she is actually cavorting with the dead , in a sense has already committed herself ...
... thing in her that reflects his own semi - transcendent state , whilst being as intangible and distant as the ghost of his dead wife . The irony is that she is actually cavorting with the dead , in a sense has already committed herself ...
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Índice
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21 | |
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
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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.