Vladimir Nabokov
Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels| By: | M. Glynn |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781349738441 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137109071 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.