Table of Contents

Preface 1. Nabokov in Literary History 2. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the Modernist Impasse 3. Nabokov, Benjamin and Historical Resistance 4. Totalitarian Time: The Struggle for Autonomy in Bend Sinister 5. Freudian Time: Lolita, Psychoanalysis and the Holocaust 6. Swiss Time: Cold War Pastoral in late Nabokov Conclusion: Reading Nabokov's Dialectics

About the Author

Will Norman is Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English, University of Kent, UK.

Reviews

"Will Norman’s Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time is a sustained demonstration of the importance of disobeying orders. Treating some of Nabokov’s most polemical statements with the informed scepticism other critics apply to instructions by Humbert, Norman demonstrates how deeply interested Nabokov is in schools of thought he claims to disdain and ignore." -- Rachel Trousdale, Agnes Scott College, Slavonic & East European Review