The keys to Lolita
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The keys to Lolita
9.99 €
"Keys to 'Lolita'" (1968) is the first detailed study of Vladimir Nabokov's most famous novel. Its author, the young American Slavist Karl Proffer, founded the Ardis publishing house with his wife Ellendeya three years after the book's publication and opened the way for Russian writers who were out of print in the Soviet Union to reach readers.
Proffer does not claim to be a comprehensive academic analysis of "Lolita"; he writes lightly and even humorously, emphasizing that he only offers his observations on the style and techniques of "Lolita" as well as "clues to some... puzzles" of the novel. And yet it was with his work, highly appreciated by Nabokov himself, that an in-depth study of the famous writer's works began. The translators of "Keys" brilliantly coped with a difficult task: not only to preserve the spirit and style of the study, but also to find in the author's Russian version of "Lolita" exact correspondences to the many comparisons on which it is based. This one-of-a-kind experience of studying one of the best novels of the twentieth century infects with the delight of the discoverer and prompts one to immediately read it again.
Proffer does not claim to be a comprehensive academic analysis of "Lolita"; he writes lightly and even humorously, emphasizing that he only offers his observations on the style and techniques of "Lolita" as well as "clues to some... puzzles" of the novel. And yet it was with his work, highly appreciated by Nabokov himself, that an in-depth study of the famous writer's works began. The translators of "Keys" brilliantly coped with a difficult task: not only to preserve the spirit and style of the study, but also to find in the author's Russian version of "Lolita" exact correspondences to the many comparisons on which it is based. This one-of-a-kind experience of studying one of the best novels of the twentieth century infects with the delight of the discoverer and prompts one to immediately read it again.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Corpus.