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Author De la Durantaye, Leland.

Title Style is matter : the moral art of Vladimir Nabokov / Leland de la Durantaye
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cruelty, or, Nabokov's reader -- The reality of the author -- The criminal artist -- Safely solipsizing -- Anesthesia -- Humbert's green lane -- A riddle with an elegant solution -- The particularity of literature -- Lexicomania -- The fine fabric of deceit -- The figure in the magic carpet
Summary "Focusing on Lolita but also addressing other major works (especially Speak, Memory and Pale Fire), the author asks whether the work of this writer whom many find cruel contains a moral message and, if so, why that message is so artfully concealed. Style Is Matter places Nabokov's work once and for all into dialogue with some of the most basic issues concerning the ethics of writing and of reading itself." "De la Durantaye argues that Humbert's narrative confession artfully seduces the reader into complicity with his dark fantasies and even darker acts until the very end, where he expresses his bitter regret for what he has done. In this sense, Lolita becomes a study in the danger of art, the artist's responsibility to the real world, and the perils and pitfalls of reading itself. De la Durantaye also draws on Nabokov's nonfiction writings to explore his belief that all genuine art is deceptive-as is nature itself Through de la Durantaye's writing, we see that Nabokov learned valuable lessons in mimicry and camouflage from the intricate patterns of the butterflies he adored."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index
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Subject Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Ethics
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Aesthetics
SUBJECT Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Aesthetics
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Ethics
Nabokov -- Vladimir Vladimirovich -- 1899-1977 -- Ethics. blmlsh
Nabokov -- Vladimir Vladimirovich -- 1899-1977 -- Aesthetics. blmlsh
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič 1899-1977 gnd
Nabokov, Vladimir V. swd
Subject Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Aesthetics
Ethics
Ethics in literature
Moral conditions in literature
Ethik
Lolita (Nabokov)
Ethiek.
Dilemma's.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801468520
0801468523