Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov''s Puzzles, Codes, Signs and Symbols
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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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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 07 Jun 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781441196064
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John Banville is the author of nineteen novels including The Infinites and The Sea which won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Yuri Leving is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Russian Studies Dalhousie University Canada. He is the author of three books including Train Station -- Garage -- Hangar. Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Russian Urbanism (2004) and Keys to The Gift. A Guide to V. Nabokov's Novel (2011) and has also co-edited three volumes including Empire N: Nabokov and His Heirs (2006) and Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac (2010). Leving has published over seventy scholarly articles on various aspects of Russian and comparative literature. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes (1999-2001) and was the curator for the exhibition Nabokov's Lolita: 1955-2005 in Washington D.C. which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita.