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Nabokov and Nietzsche Problems and Perspectives

Nabokov and Nietzsche Problems and Perspectives

Rodgers, Michael

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501359134
ISBN13: 9781501359132
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 31 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Shortlisted for The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Award

Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship - that often frustrate interpretation. It does so by arguing that the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, as both a conceptual instrument and a largely unnoticed influence on Nabokov himself, can help to untie some of these knots.

The study addresses the fundamental problems in Nabokov's writing that make his work perplexing, mysterious and frequently uneasy rather than simply focusing on the literary puzzles and games that, although inherent, do not necessarily define his body of work. Michael Rodgers shows that Nietzsche's philosophy provides new, but not always palatable, perspectives in order to negotiate interpretative impasses, and that the uneasy aspects of Nabokov's work offer the reader manifold rewards.

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