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ANATOMY OF A SHORT STORY
NABOKOV'S PUZZLES, CODES, SIGNS AND SYMBOLS |
| By: |
John Banville, Yuri Leving |
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Hardback |
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£140.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441196064 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441196064 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
24 May, 2012 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
A unique anthology devoted to a single story-"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories. |
| Synopsis: |
Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov's shortest short stories, "Signs and Symbols," has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote. It has been called "one of the greatest short stories ever written" and "a triumph of economy and force, minute realism and shimmering mystery" (Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years). Part and parcel of a classical short fiction genre, Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols"--one of his last experiments in short prose--strikes with lexical density and contains a surprising structural element: what the writer had described in his letter to Katharine White, the editor of the New Yorker, as having an "inside," "inner scheme," and "a system of mute responses". The goal of the present collection of essays is to approach the narrative riddles of "Signs and Symbols"-- reproduced here in full -- an open-ended story which invites attempts to break its mysterious code. In doing so, the contributors illuminate the ways in which we interpret fiction, and the short story in particular. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
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Non-returnable |
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