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Book SynopsisNabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers.
Trade Review'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown
'...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well.' - Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review
Table of ContentsPreface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World; J.Grayson Prologue: The Otherworld; B.Boyd & D.Barton Johnson 'Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the Claims of the Real; Z.Kuzmanovich Mimicry in Nature and Art; D.Zimmer Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels; V.Alexandrov Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'; D.Barton Johnson Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits; P.Meyer Transparent Things and Opaque Words; C.Lock Nabokov, Mach and Monism; S.H.Blackwell Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity; L.Toker Nabokov's Last Laughs; P.B.Grant Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of Glory; C.Nichol Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts; M.Couturier The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and Prose of the 1920s and 1930s; O.Skonechnaia The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov; Z.Zinik L'Envoi: Shakespeare; V.Nabokov , translation by D.Nabokov Select Bibliography Index
