2 juillet 2021
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Paul D. Morris, « Vladimir Nabokov : Cosmic Synchronization and the Crossing of Artistic Borders », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10.4000/books.pupo.2963
The richly evocative title and subject matter of the conference which initiated this brief article was “Borderlines and Borderlands.” And as an opening claim, I will invoke direct reference to this theme baldly to state that there are few writers whose artistic identity was more defined, whose career more marked, by literal and figurative border-crossing than that of Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov was certainly one of the most transgressive writers of the twentieth-century. As an exile, he crossed...