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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476784903321

Autore

Vries Gerard de

Titolo

Silent love : the annotation and interpretation of Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" / / Gerard de Vries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ( ix, 221 pages)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Russian literature - Criticism and interpretation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov's most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian's passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov's infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov's brother Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary references and allusions, and by disregarding the deceptive guiding by the narrator (Sebastian's half-brother), this moving story about Sebastian's silent love becomes brightly visible.