"I too plan to explore a distant land". Travel between Reality and Imagination in Nabokov's "Podvig"
In his novel Podvig (Glory, 1932) Nabokov follows Martyn Edel’vejs’s journeys through Europe, as a young Russian emigrate, and the gradual development of his obsession with accomplishing a heroic deed. While exploring the symbolic value of such recurring images as forest paths, walls, trains and wat...
Main Author: | Nadia Cornettone |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Belarusian |
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Aracne editrice
2016-12-01
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Series: | eSamizdat |
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Online Access: | http://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/article/view/41 |
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