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Nabokov and the Russian Diaspora

Bryan Karetnyk

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  • 320 sidor
  • 2025
This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokovs life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokovs writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this study contends that the rise of totalitarianism constituted one of the most urgent, substantial and complex issues with which Nabokov and his peers in emigration had to contend. Yet while the precarious exilic status of the Russian diaspora not only made the spread of totalitarian ideologies and dictatorships an acute and tangible danger, it also, perversely, afforded its members exceptionally free scope to respond intellectually and creatively, as individuals outside and on the limits of these systems. This is the first book that critically and comprehensively examines Nabokovs literary and intellectual responses to the rise of totalitarian systems and ideologies, contextualizing them within those of his peers in the first wave of Russian emigration.
  • Författare: Bryan Karetnyk
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783031900174
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-21
  • Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan