The author would like to express his special thanks to Dieter E. ' The Eye's (initially) nameless narrator and anti-hero, a morbidly self-conscious young man, attempts to commit suicide after being physically humiliated by an oft-cuckolded husband. I am going to argue that the genesis of this seminal novella lies in a literal butterfly chase. Originally entitled Sogliadatai, meaning "the spy" or "the surreptitious observer," it introduces some of Nabokov's most important themes and devices: a version of the two world theme (one world delusional, the other "real"), a first-person unreliable narrator, questions of identity, etc. BARTON JOHNSON (Santa Barbara) That Butterfly in Nabokov's Eye" Nabokov's 1930 novella, The Eye, is one of his least investigated books.
5OBOTCm!gtF!~~/s-l300.jpg "The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov")
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
0 kommentar(er)
