{"product_id":"nabokov-and-the-real-world-between-appreciation-and-defense-paperback","title":"Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Alter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human condition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes. Consequently, many critics and readers have thought of him as a writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world and its complexities, from love and loss to exile, freedom, and the impact of contemporary politics on our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these illuminating and exquisitely written essays, Alter spans the breadth of Nabokov's writings, from his memoir, lectures, and short stories to major novels such as \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e. He demonstrates how the self-reflexivity of Nabokov's fiction becomes a vehicle for expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful, who cared deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss, and who was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort human values. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering timeless insights into literature's most fabulous artificer, \u003ci\u003eNabokov and the Real World\u003c\/i\u003e makes an elegant and compelling case for Nabokov's relevance today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Alter\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). He lives in Berkeley, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768483578144,"sku":"9780691211930","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/03aeac4f1755a1021ea95dd744592da4.webp?v=1780330636","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nabokov-and-the-real-world-between-appreciation-and-defense-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}