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Taina Naita. Narrative Stance in Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight as discussed by the authors is a novel in which the title character's secret (Russ. Taina Naita) is his calculated absence from the book of which he appears to be the biographical subject.Abstract:
The paper discusses Vladimir Nabokov's novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight as his first English experiment in constructing a model of a possible metaphysical contact between the world of human consciousness and a mysterious dimension beyond it. Nabokov's almost invariable principles of composition make the narrative stance of the novel open to various interpretations; the paper argues in favor of the version in which the title character's secret (Russ. Taina Naita) is his calculated absence from the book of which he appears to be the biographical subject. The Appendix presents some results of archival study of the novel's extant manuscripts.read more
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Nabokov's Otherworld.
TL;DR: Johnson et al. as discussed by the authors show that behind the author's 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 consequent redefinition of nature and artifice as synonyms.
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Past Reviews of “The Identity Puzzle” in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Junping Zhang,Bin Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed past reviews concerning the identity puzzle in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and analyzed the four interpretations of these interpretations in Nabokov criticism, concluding that "the identity puzzle" is the core question in the whole of NN scholarship and that it is the ambiguous identities of the novel's two heroes, Sebastian and V. who are half-brothers.
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Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer (review)
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The “Doubles” in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Zhang Junping,Zhang Bin +1 more
Abstract: The ambiguous identities of the two heroes, V. and Sebastian, in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, is of great interest to Nabokovian criticism and scholarship. This paper, in light of theories on the “double”, intents to figure out the problem and reveal Nabokov’s design of Sebastian and V. as “doubles”. In The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov structures delicate mappings for the doubling relationship between the two heroes. His intricate design of doubles aims to show the dynamic process of Sebastian and V.’s selfdevelopment by erasing the psychic distance between them.
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Nabokov’s The Gift, Dostoevskii, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity
TL;DR: In this article, the protagonist of The Gift, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, describes some witch doctors collecting Chinese rhubarb, whose root bears an extraordinary resemblance to a caterpillar, right down to its prolegs and spiracles.
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