This text explores the web of language, uncertainties and arrogance which makes Vladimir Nabokov such a master of fiction - arguing that he is neither the aetheist he liked to pretend to be, nor the heavy breathing moralist recent critics make him. The author looks at major works like "Pnin", "Lolita", "Pale Fire" and "Ada" as well as early works like "The Real Life od Sebastian Knight" and selected short stories. There are also detailed discussions of Nabokov's ideas of literature, memory, pity and pain.
- ISBN10 0712674764
- ISBN13 9780712674768
- Publish Date 3 August 1995 (first published 4 August 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Pimlico
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English