The Art of Memory in Exile
Subtitle: Vladimir Nabokov & Milan Kundera
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: December 22, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780809323968
Subjects: Memory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Exile (Punishment) in literature; Kundera, Milan - Prose & Criticism; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovic; Literary Criticism; Czech; Eastern Europe; USA; Exiles in literature; American - General; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Criticism and interpretation; Memory in literature; Eastern European; 1899-1977; Exile (Punishment) in literatu; Kundera, Milan
First sentence: Nabokov's first novel, Mary (1926), written only a few years after the writer's own exile, opens predictably with an emigre setting of a pension "both Russian and nasty" in the midst of Berlin: Russian, because it is inhabited by people derailed from their homeland owing to the tragic force of the Bolshevik revolution; nasty, because the pension is so close to the railroad that its walls shake and rattle as if a train were going through it.