Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

by Will Norman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138109673
• ISBN13: 9781138109674
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"