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Vladimir Nabokov: A Critical Study of the Novels
Contributor(s): Rampton, David (Author)
ISBN: 0521276713     ISBN-13: 9780521276719
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $40.84  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1984
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Annotation: A provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of twentieth-century literature.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 83023212
Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.7 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
 
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Publisher Description:
Vladimir Nabokov was always a controversial writer. Long before the furore that attended the publication of Lolita, controversy raged over the virtues of his work. His detractors insisted that, although he wrote nine Russian novels, he had forsaken the humanistic concerns of the Russian literary tradition, while his supporters claimed that his work actually extended and enriched that tradition. David Rampton faces these apparent contradictions head on and, adopting a more detached, critical perspective than is usually found in writing on Nabokov, he tries to reach a more balanced, integrated view of the novelist's achievement. Rampton assembles evidence from Nabokov's own critical writings to show that the relationship of art to human life is central to Nabokov's work. He pursues this argument through a close reading of novels from different stages of Nabokov's career. What emerges is a provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of twentieth-century literature.