Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives

Harnessing the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche as both a conceptual instrument and a largely unnoticed influence on Vladimir Nabokov, this book addresses fundamental problems of Nabokov's writing that make his work perplexing, mysterious and uneasy. Michael Rodgers shows that Nietzsche's philosophy provides new, but not always palatable, perspectives on interpretative impasses such as Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory and Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship, and that the uneasy aspects of Nabokov's work offer the reader manifold rewards--back cover.

• | Author: Michael Rodgers
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: October 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501359134
• | ISBN-13: 9781501359132