Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play

ISBN-13: 9780199603985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 328 str.

Thomas Karshan

Opis

In a 1925 speech, Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' Thomas Karshan draws on early writings and archival material to argue that play is Nabokov's signature theme, and that his novels form one of the most sophisticated treatments of play ever achieved.

Recenzje

[a] penetrating, omniscient book

O autorze

Thomas Karshan is a Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, and prior to that was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard, a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-translator of Nabokov's first major work, The Tragedy of Mr. Morn, a five-act play, and the editor of Nabokov's Collected Poems. He has written for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Essays in Criticism, Modernism / Modernity, and Nabokov Studies.