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Item Details
| Title:
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THE ART OF MEMORY IN EXILE
VLADIMIR NABOKOV AND MILAN KUNDERA |
| By: |
Hana Pichova |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£34.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0809323966 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780809323968 |
| Publisher: |
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2001 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
This text explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, the author argues, stress how personal and cultural memory serves as a creative means of overcoming the artist's and exile's loss of homeland. |
| Synopsis: |
This text explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, the author argues, stress how personal and cultural memory serves as a creative means of overcoming the artist's and exile's loss of homeland. In their virtuoso display of literary talent, Nabokov and Kundera showcase the strategies that allow their protagonists to succeed as emigres: a creative fusing of past and present through the prism of the imagination. The text closely analyzes two novels by each author: the first written in exile (Nabokov's "Mary" and Kundera's "The Book of Laughing and Forgetting") and a later, pivotal novel in each writer's career (Nabokov's "The Gift" and Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"). In all four texts, these authors explore how the kaleidoscope of personal and cultural memory confronts a fragmented and untenable present, contrasting the lives of fictional emigres who fail to bridge the gap between past and present with those emigres whose rich artistic vision allows them to transcend the trials of homelessness. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Southern Illinois University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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