« Shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale » - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, variations fictionnelles sur l’art de la biographie

Alladaye, René

doi:10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3229-3.p.0215

L’Herméneutique fictionnalisée. Quand l’interprétation s’invite dans la fiction - « Shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale »

« Shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale » The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, variations fictionnelles sur l’art de la biographie

Publication type: Article from a collective work
Collective work:
L’Herméneutique fictionnalisée
. Quand l’interprétation s’invite dans la fiction
Author: Alladaye (René)
Pages: 215 to 231
Collection: Encounters, n° 99
Series: General and comparative literature, n° 9

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov’s first novel in English, is an interpretative conundrum which invites (and maybe forces) its reader to solve a series of narrative problems. This paper tries to explore these problems in order to demonstrate the eerie complexity of a seemingly straightforward fiction.

CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
ISBN: 978-2-8124-3229-3
EAN: 9782812432293
ISSN: 2261-1851
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3229-3.p.0215
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-20-2015
Language: French

« Shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale » The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, variations fictionnelles sur l’art de la biographie

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