The Novels Of Vladimir Nabokov
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.
Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce admiration and intellectual fascination as Vladimir Nabokov, and Laurie Clancy's critical study stands as one of the most rigorous and illuminating guides to his novelistic genius. Published as part of the prestigious Macmillan Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series, this work systematically examines the full arc of Nabokov's fiction — from his early Russian-language masterworks to the dazzling English-language triumphs that secured his place in the literary canon — uncovering the elaborate games of language, memory, and identity that animate every page. Clancy argues with precision and authority that Nabokov's art is inseparable from his obsessions: the exile's longing, the cruelty of time, and the treacherous beauty of artifice itself. Charting the thematic and stylistic evolution across novels such as The Gift, Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, and Ada, the study illustrates how Nabokov constructed fictional worlds of breathtaking intricacy, where aesthetic pleasure and moral unease are held in perpetual, dizzying tension. For scholars, students, and devoted readers alike, this is an indispensable companion to one of literature's great conjurers — and a work that leaves one returning to Nabokov's novels with newly sharpened eyes.
Author: Laurie Clancy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Macmillan
Genre: Literary theory
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.
Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce admiration and intellectual fascination as Vladimir Nabokov, and Laurie Clancy's critical study stands as one of the most rigorous and illuminating guides to his novelistic genius. Published as part of the prestigious Macmillan Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series, this work systematically examines the full arc of Nabokov's fiction — from his early Russian-language masterworks to the dazzling English-language triumphs that secured his place in the literary canon — uncovering the elaborate games of language, memory, and identity that animate every page. Clancy argues with precision and authority that Nabokov's art is inseparable from his obsessions: the exile's longing, the cruelty of time, and the treacherous beauty of artifice itself. Charting the thematic and stylistic evolution across novels such as The Gift, Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, and Ada, the study illustrates how Nabokov constructed fictional worlds of breathtaking intricacy, where aesthetic pleasure and moral unease are held in perpetual, dizzying tension. For scholars, students, and devoted readers alike, this is an indispensable companion to one of literature's great conjurers — and a work that leaves one returning to Nabokov's novels with newly sharpened eyes.