Nabokov
Jacob Emery
Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
This course provides an overview of Vladimir Nabokov’s work in both Russian and English. The focus is on his prose fictions, but we will also consider Nabokov as a poet, playwright, critic, translator, and puzzle constructor. In exploring Nabokov’s works, we will also explore the themes that make him a central figure of twentieth century literature, including: the poetics of exile and nostalgia; translation and transnational culture; literary trickery and deceit; paranoia as a tactic of reading; the relationship between the aesthetic and the sadistic; and art as an image of a higher reality. All readings available in English.
Catalog Information: HON-H 303 INTERDEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIA