Nabokov
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

Nabokov by a minute Sherlock-Holmesian attention to detail until its mystery that is, its specific relation to specific dreams, desires, and limitations of human life-begins to emerge.Ye t the mystery of a literary struc ture can be approximated rather than solved.It lies in the quaint ap propriateness of the structure to an attitude; the "aesthetic bliss" produced by this harmony retains mysteriousness even after the ap proaches to it have been mapped.An attempt to unravel the enigmas of Naboko