Nabokov's 'Diabolical Task': Translation as Capture and Becoming-Butterfly.
The lepidopteral imaginary that animates Nabokov's relationship to translation can be understood in light of Deleuze and Guattari's notions of 'apparatus of capture' and 'rhizomatic becomings'. On the one hand, Nabokov's scientific fascination with butterflies frames his radically literal approach t...
| Published in: | Deleuze & Guattari Studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 585 - 604 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Nov2020
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