“The Shadow of Fool-Made History”: History as Narrative in Nabokov’s Work

Autori

  • Siggy Frank University of Nottingham

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/989

Parole chiave:

Nabokov, Pnin, history, narrative, Holocaust

Abstract

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.

Downloads

I dati di download non sono ancora disponibili.

Biografia autore

Siggy Frank, University of Nottingham

Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies

##submission.downloads##

Pubblicato

2015-12-24

Fascicolo

N. 7 (2015): Double Issue - The New Nabokov / Unburied Memory

Sezione

The New Nabokov

Licenza