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Nabokov and the Real World : Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert Alter is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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"This book collects book includes eleven pieces about Vladimir Nabokov. A common thread connects the articles, which is an underlying sense that Nabokov's fiction resonantly addresses the realm beyond literature that we call, perhaps for want of a better term-and it is a word toward which he himself was dismissive-reality. . . . Nabokov was an existentially serious writer in the midst of being a playful one. He cared deeply about human relationships and their potential distortions, about love an
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- Author
- Robert Alter
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691211930
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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