Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- ISBN-10
- 9042007192
- ISBN-13
- 9789042007192
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rodopi
- Authors
- Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin
Description
From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).
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