Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
Edición de la obra Vladimir Nabokov
| Autor | Michael Glynn |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Fecha de publicación | November 13, 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 224 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9781403979858 |
| ISBN-10 | 1403979855 |
| OCLC | 85851515 |
| LCCN | 2007009639 |
| Número de Cutter | G568v |
"Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov's epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality."--Jacket.