Insomniac Dreams : Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 10: 0691196907 / ISBN 13: 9780691196909

Verlag: Princeton University Press Nov 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'Who needs fantasy fiction when you can plunge through the trapdoor in Nabokov's pillow into his lucid dreamworlds, with Gennady Barabtarlo as sage companion and guide '--Brian Boyd, author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780691196909

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Insomniac Dreams : Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
• Verlag: Princeton University Press Nov 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691196907
• ISBN-13: 9780691196909
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Nabokov's dream diary―published for the first time

On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to test the theory that time may go in reverse, so that a later event may generate an earlier dream. The result―published here for the first time―is a fascinating diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams (and subsequent daytime episodes) on 118 index cards, providing a rare glimpse of the artist at his most private. Insomniac Dreams presents the text of Nabokov's dream experiment, illustrated with a selection of his original index cards, and provides rich annotations and analysis that put them in the context of his life and writings.

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian-American writer whose books include the novels Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire, and Ada. Gennady Barabtarlo (1949–2019) was professor of literature at the University of Missouri and the author of a number of books on Nabokov.