Title: Vladimir Nabokov
Description: "Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov's epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality."--Jacket.
Subjects: Nabokov, vladimir vladimirovich, 1899-1977, Bergson, henri, 1859-1941, Formalism (literary analysis), Criticism and interpretation, Influence