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The Translator's Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation

The Translator's Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation

Trubikhina, Julia

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Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1618118293
ISBN13: 9781618118295
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: May 30 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its case study, this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the metaliterary to the more recent metaphysical approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a true but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.

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