Optical Miniatures in Text and Image: Detail and Totality in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Sebald’s The Emigrants

However fleetingly, various incarnations of Vladimir Nabokov materialize within the four segments of W. G. Sebald’s hybrid 1992 work, The Emigrants. The purpose of these appearances is not immediately legible, nor are they suggestive of any obvious cumulative or retrospective understanding. What, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karen Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2006-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/12309