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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461947603321

Autore

Norman Will <1978-, >

Titolo

Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-64379-0

0-203-10806-X

1-136-26436-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 19

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Social history in literature

Time in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself - that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism - this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading his American work alongside the violent upheavals of twentieth-century ideological conflicts in Europe and the United States. This approach explores how the author's characteristic temporal manipul