Silent Love

The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight"

AvGerard Vries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov’s infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov’s brother Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary references and allusions, and by disregarding the deceptive guiding by the narrator (Sebastian’s half-brother), this moving story about Sebastian’s silent love becomes brightly visible.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-16
Mått:159 x 238 x 21 mm
Vikt:516 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618114990

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Gerard de Vries’ first paper appeared in Russian Literature Triquarterly in 1991 and he has written since many articles on Nabokov’s works, which were published in American, French and Russian academic journals. With D. Barton Johnson he wrote Nabokov and the Art of Painting (2006).

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“Gerard de Vries’ Silent Love, a new study of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, offers a stimulating analysis of Nabokov’s first novel written in English. This study makes two significant contributions to the existing body of criticism devoted to the novel. First, he has provided a detailed set of annotations that illuminate a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural allusions. Second, he provides a new theory for understanding the enigmatic conduct of the title character, the writer Sebastian Knight. This book will prove useful for any reader and student of Nabokov’s work.”

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Acknowledgments Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: AnnotationsChapter 3: Motifs: NarrativeChapter 4: Motifs: IdentitiesChapter 5: Motifs: Death and BeyondChapter 6: ConclusionWorks CitedIndex