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That Other World

- Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile
Af: Azar Nafisi Engelsk Hardback

That Other World

- Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile
Af: Azar Nafisi Engelsk Hardback
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The foundational text for the acclaimed international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran“Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning.”—Kirkus Reviews The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past. In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.
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The foundational text for the acclaimed international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran“Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning.”—Kirkus Reviews The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past. In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 376
ISBN-13: 9780300158830
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0300158831
Udg. Dato: 23 jul 2019
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 244mm
Højde: 167mm
Forlag: Yale University Press
Oplagsdato: 23 jul 2019
Forfatter(e): Azar Nafisi
Forfatter(e) Azar Nafisi


Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger


ISBN-13 9780300158830


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 376


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 244mm


Højde 167mm


Udg. Dato 23 jul 2019


Oplagsdato 23 jul 2019


Forlag Yale University Press