TRANSLATING TIMELESSNESS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE, DRUGIE BEREGA, AND SPEAK, MEMORY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY REVISITED.

Comparing the three full-length versions of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography reveals shifts in the way he imagines his reader as he moves between languages. Nabokov's tussles with Edmund Wilson over Russian history and literature influence the devices he uses to share his experience of timelessness...

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Published in:Modern Language Review Vol. 113; no. 1; pp. 39 - 57
Main Author: COOPER, SARA-LOUISE
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Published: Modern Humanities Research Association Jan2018
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