Aerial View

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Nabokov's art of prose, as it evolved over the half-a-century of concentrated creativity in two languages, is a prodigiously intricate phenomenon. Many of its fascinating secrets remain sealed, despite a torrent of interpretative literature. The essays that form Aerial View probe and light numerous such recesses, in many instances seldom or never visited before. The book alerts the serious student of both Russian and English works by Nabokov to the deep functional relationship between the artistic properties of his fiction (such as composition, narrative techniques, and style) and its implied philosophy of creation and afterlife.
In a special appendix, many archival documents by and about Nabokov are published and annotated for the first time.

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Gennady Barabtarlo

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«Professor Barabtarlo's Nabokov essays delve into many aspects of the Russian and English fiction that are almost untouched by other scholars. Originality of vision, precision of scholarship, and elegance of exposition make these diverse studies essential for all students of Nabokov.» (D. Barton Johnson, University of California)
«Gennady Barabtarlo consistently writes some of the most stylish, provocative, and astute criticism of Nabokov currently being produced.» (Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
«Dr. Barabtarlo writes with precision and aplomb. His essays set new standard for close textual analysis in Nabokov studies - a singular exploit.» (Pekka Tammi, Academy of Finland)
«Barabtarlo is one of our most sedulous and perceptive investigators of Nabokov's Russian and English writings. No Nabokov specialist should overlook Barabtarlo's concise and elegant formulations in this handsomely produced volume.» (D.B. Johnson, Choice)
«Barabtarlo's book is a treasure trove of ingenious identifications, unscrambled riddles, penetrating recognitions of thematic lines prolonged under a variety of formal disguises, lyrical and artistic obsessions revisited in work after work...Barabtarlo's book represents the very best that 'nabokovovedenie' can offer.» (Monika Greenleaf, Slavic Review)
«Barabtarlo's critical explorations are wonderfully suspenseful.» (Galya Diment, The Slavonic and East European Journal)

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