Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction

by Barbara Wyllie

Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: "I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a film." The relevance of film to the novelist's art remains a preoccupying question in recent American fiction: writers must decide whether to acknowledge the medium that is a defining element of America's collective unconscious and, if so, how to deploy it successfully toward a written work of fiction. In situating Nabokov within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786416386
• ISBN13: 9780786416387
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher