“The Shadow of Fool-Made History”: History as Narrative in Nabokov’s Work
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https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/989Keywords:
Nabokov, Pnin, history, narrative, HolocaustAbstract
This paper presents a first attempt to examine Nabokov’s notion of the writing of history in relation to the overtly fictional narrative in Pnin, noting Nabokov’s strategy of using the inherently anti-historicist, self-reflexive mode of his work to engage with historical issues.
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