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Nabokov's Otherworld /

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his conseque...

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Autor principal: Alexandrov, Vladimir E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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