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Lectures on Don Quixote
Vladimir Nabokov
出版
HMH
, 2016-08-23
主題
Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Literary Criticism / Modern / 17th Century
ISBN
0544998081
9780544998087
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Uk7JDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
One of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.
The author of
Lolita
and
Pale Fire
was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, a timeless classic and one of the most deeply influential works in all of Western literature.
Rejecting the common interpretation of
Don Quixote
as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a preface by Fredson Bowers, this volume offers “a powerful, critical, and dramatic elaboration of the theme of illusion” (V. S. Pritchett,
The New York Review of Books
).
