Omry RONEN

PROUST’S WAY IN NABOKOV’S DESCRIPTIVE ART

 
 
 

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Summary

Salient features of Nabokov’s emulation of Proust are considered in general terms, and his particular attention to Proust’s evocative metaphors is analyzed specifically for the instance of a delicately suggestive image of erotic awakening, “a strange castle in an unknown Spain”, in Speak, Memory (1966).

 

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