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Nabokov and indeterminacy : the case of The real life of Sebastian Knight /

In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov's early novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight illuminates his later work. Meyer first focuses on Sebastian Knight, exploring how Nabokov associates his characters with systems of subtextual references to Russian, British...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Priscilla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]
Colección:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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