“Light of My Life”: Love, Time and Memory in Nabokov’s by James D.

By James D.

Vladimir Nabokov, one of many twentieth century’s maximum novelists, is especially remembered for his masterpiece Lolita. the current paintings examines the long-lasting topics of Lolita and areas the radical in its biographical, social, cultural and ancient contexts. Of specific curiosity are questions of affection in all of its manifestations, the valuable challenge of time within the booklet, and reminiscence because it is explored in fictional memoir or, consequently, the vital protagonist’s “confession.”

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