Secret writing: Nabokov. Archive. Subtext

19,99

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Vladimir Nabokov resisted reading his prose through the prism of sketches and drafts. However, the complex narrative structure of his works, their stylistic sophistication and ontological multidimensionality can sometimes be revealed to the reader only by comparing the primary plan and the final version of literary texts, be it a novel, short story or autobiographical narrative. "Cryptography: Nabokov. Archive. Subtext" is an experiment in archival interpretation of his writings from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s: the memoirs "Other Shores", the novels "Camera Obscura", "Under the Sign of the Illegitimate" and "Pnin" and the stories "Ultima Thule", "Sisters" Wayne" and "Lance" with the help of codes or "keys" carefully hidden in Nabokov's manuscripts, diaries and letters. The research includes the publication and analysis of the 1951 Diary, a draft of the ending of the novel “Camera Obscura” rejected by the author, an essay by V. E. Nabokova “On Dmitry’s Childhood”, skillfully woven into the last chapter of her husband’s autobiography, as well as a review of Nabokov’s correspondence with the editor of the magazine “New Yorker" by Katarina White, who sheds light on the mysteries of "Pnin".

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Publication language: Russian

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