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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.5321
- isbn: 9782868209832
- eisbn: 9791034404780
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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cosmopolitisme intertextualité plurilinguisme littérature intertextuality literature French Literature LIT004130 DSBSujets proches
Legends and stories Novels Stories 30s (Twentieth century decade) Thirties (Twentieth century decade) 1930s Frenchmen (French people) Novels Novellas (Short novels) Fiction--Philosophy Metafiction StoriesCiter ce document
Julian W. Connolly, « Fluid Spaces, Illusive Identities: Nabokov’s Depiction of France in the Late 1930s », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.5321
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Evocations of French landscapes and French characters crop up in Nabokov’s writings throughout his career, from the “ancient port in the South of France” visited by Nikitin in “The Seaport” (published in 1924) (Stories, 60) to “the Carlton Courts in Cannes,” where Flora lost her virginity to a ball boy in the unfinished Original of Laura (Laura, 77). As diverse as these references are, however, I think we can detect in Nabokov’s treatment of France in his fiction of the late 1930s a distincti...