Women in Nabokov's life and art /
Torres Núñez, Juan José,editor.
Garipova, Nailya,editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : the gallery of Nabokov's women / Nailya Garipova -- Part I. Women in Nabokov's life. "An ideal spouse for a writer" : the reality and myths in Véra Nabokov's life / Elena Ukhova -- Véra's role in Nabokov's life and prose / Alexandra Popoff -- Remorse and Nabokov's women / Frances Peltz Assa -- Carmencita : Valentina Shulgina : the evolution of Eros in Nabokov's work / Priscilla Meyer -- "Or of the air itself" : Nabokov's "mothers" as bearers of spiritual understanding / Nora Scholz -- Part II. Women in Nabokov's art. Fetching yet faithless : problematic mistresses in Nabokov's fiction / Julian W. Connolly -- The Nabokovian society woman : a Kirchner's cocotte? / Alexia Gassin -- "A weird place" : Nabokov and the topography of the foreign governess / Sabina Metzger -- Narrating her own absence : the narrator and protagonist of A slice of life / Akiko Nakata -- Making sense of death : inaccessible women in Nabokov's short stories / Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska -- An invisible harlequin in Nabokov's last novel : "You" in the protagonist's world and afterworld / Ljuba Tarvi -- 'Fires of my loins' : female characters in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin / Juan Ignacio Guijarro González.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Authors, Russian
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Authors, Russian.
Characters and characteristics.
Relations with women.

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