| Titre | Роман-Оборотень : о Даре В. Набокова | |
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| Auteur | Nora Buhks | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 4, octobre-décembre 1990 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Essais |
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| Page | 587-624 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Nora Buhks, The Proteus-novel (Nabokov's novel Dar/The gift).
A close reading of the text sheds light on the nature of the opposition between structural principles such as homogeneity/fragmentarity of the narrative induced by the character of this work (Dar - a biographical novel) and by its thematical purpose (Dar is a novel bearing on literature of which it is a model in a variety of types). Another structural opposition is that between chronology and timelessness. The rejection of temporal dimension allows to comprise within the limits of the novel texts that belong to various periods and authors, and to substitute an aesthetic judgement for the guarantee of historical authenticity. Thus the structure of Dar is based on a coding principle which turns the novel into a crossword puzzle. A close examination of the structure of the work stresses the key-position of chapter IV as a clue to the various meaning of the novel. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_4_2254 |
