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In__Nabokov and Indeterminacy__, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov’s early novel__The Real Life of Sebastian Knight__illuminates his later work. Meyer first focuses on__Sebastian Knight__, exploring how Nabokov associates his characters with systems of subtextual references to Russian, British, and American literary and philosophical works. She then turns to__Lolita__and__Pale Fire__, applying these insights to show that these later novels clearly differentiate the characters through subtextual references, and that__Sebastian Knight’s__construction models that of__Pale Fire__.Meyer argues that the dialogue Nabokov constructs among subtexts explores his central concern: the continued existence of the spirit beyond bodily death. She suggests that because Nabokov’s art was a quest for an unattainable knowledge of the otherworldly, knowledge which can never be conclusive, Nabokov’s novels are never closed in plot, theme, or resolution—they take as their hidden theme the unfinalizability that Bakhtin says characterizes all novels.The conclusions of Nabokov's novels demand a rereading, and each rereading yields a different novel. The reader can never get back to the same beginni

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Author

Priscilla Meyer

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810137448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry