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Book SynopsisA major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Begi
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Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Note on Transliteration, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION: Nabokov's Metaphysics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE: Speak, Memory and Other Discursive Writings, pg. 23*CHAPTER TWO: The Defense, pg. 58*CHAPTER THREE: Invitation to a Beheading, pg. 84*CHAPTER FOUR: The Gift, pg. 108*CHAPTER FIVE: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, pg. 137*CHAPTER SIX: Lolita, pg. 160*CHAPTER SEVEN: Pale Fire, pg. 187*CONCLUSION: Nabokov and the Silver Age of Russian Culture, pg. 213*Notes, pg. 235*Works Cited, pg. 257*Index, pg. 267
