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<p><b>Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."</b> Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov's concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the
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- Author
- Leona Toker
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801422119
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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