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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- IN PLACE OF AN INTRODUCTION -- I. Truth and Fiction in Literary Biography: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight -- II. FICTITIOUS BIOGRAPHY AS PARADIGM FOR THE BETTER WORLD OF ART: BEND SINISTER -- III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS DEMONSTRATION OF "PRECISE FATE": LOLITA -- IV. BIOGRAPHY AS A BALANCE BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY: PNIN -- V. THE COMBINATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AS "CORRELATED PATTERN IN THE GAME": PALE FIRE -- VI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS THE TRIUMPH OF SUBJECTIVITY: ADA OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE -- VII. BIOGRAPHY AS SINKING BACK INTO THE PAST: TRANSPARENT THINGS -- VIII. PARODIED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS SATIRE ON THE UNITY OF LIFE AND WORK: LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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• Full title: Fictitious Biographies
• Subtitle: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels
• Author: Herbert Grabes
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 150
• EAN: 9789027933454
• ISBN: 9027933456
• ID: 09107015
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 7 × 155 × 7 mm

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