Nabokov and the Real World

Between Appreciation and Defense

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Robert Alter

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From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human condition Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive arti

Author Biography:

Robert Alter is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, and Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (Princeton). He lives in Berkeley, California.

Release date NZ

March 16th, 2021

Author

Robert Alter

Pages

248

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

140x215x17

ISBN-13

9780691211930

Product ID

33919173

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