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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

Paul Benedict Grant

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  • 312 sidor
  • 2024
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.
  • Författare: Paul Benedict Grant
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781399519212
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-30
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press