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Tolstoy and Nabokov seem to have sharply conflicting ideas about the purpose of literature. Tatyana Gershkovich undermines this familiar opposition by identifying a shared fear at the root of their seemingly antithetical aesthetics: that one’s experience of the world might be entirely one’s own, private and impossible to share through art.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations& Noteon Transliteration andCitation
  • Introduction:“Some Better Brickthan the Cartesian One”
  • Chapter One: Tolstoy’sUncertain Artist
  • Chapter Two: Nabokov’s Moderate Multiplication of the Self
  • Chapter Three: Atrophied Aesthetic Sense
  • Chapter Four: Suspicion on Trial
  • Afterword: The Artful and the Artless
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2022
        ISBN13: 9780810145535, 978-0810145535
        ISBN10: 0810145537
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Tolstoy and Nabokov seem to have sharply conflicting ideas about the purpose of literature. Tatyana Gershkovich undermines this familiar opposition by identifying a shared fear at the root of their seemingly antithetical aesthetics: that one’s experience of the world might be entirely one’s own, private and impossible to share through art.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • List of Abbreviations& Noteon Transliteration andCitation
        • Introduction:“Some Better Brickthan the Cartesian One”
        • Chapter One: Tolstoy’sUncertain Artist
        • Chapter Two: Nabokov’s Moderate Multiplication of the Self
        • Chapter Three: Atrophied Aesthetic Sense
        • Chapter Four: Suspicion on Trial
        • Afterword: The Artful and the Artless
        • Bibliography
        • Notes
        • Index

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