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Zusatztext Michael Rogers' book Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Prospects is of great interest. Its author offers something more than a comparative study … offers a fascinating journey through the world of Nabokov's works … Rogers' concept as a whole is compelling, fruitful, and indeed allows us to see the many intersections between Nabokov's work and Nietzsche's philosophy. Informationen zum Autor Michael Rodgers is Associate Lecturer in English Literature at the Open University, UK. He is co-editor, with Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, of Nabokov and the Question of Morality: Aesthetics, Metaphysics and the Ethics of Fiction (2016). Zusammenfassung Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society Shortlisted for The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Award Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita ’s moral stance, Pnin ’s relationship with memory, Pale Fire ’s ambiguous internal authorship – that often frustrate interpretation. It does so by arguing that the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, as both a conceptual instrument and a largely unnoticed influence on Nabokov himself, can help to untie some of these knots. The study addresses the fundamental problems in Nabokov's writing that make his work perplexing, mysterious and frequently uneasy rather than simply focusing on the literary puzzles and games that, although inherent, do not necessarily define his body of work. Michael Rodgers shows that Nietzsche’s philosophy provides new, but not always palatable, perspectives in order to negotiate interpretative impasses, and that the uneasy aspects of Nabokov’s work offer the reader manifold rewards. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPermissionsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Section I: Nietzschean Engagements 1. Eternal Recurrence and Nabokov's Art of Memory2. The Will to Disempower: Nabokov and His Readers Section II: Nietzschean Readings 3. Lolita ’s Nietzschean Morality4. Pale Fire : A Differing Perspective Section III: Beyond Nietzsche 5. Rewriting Nietzsche6. Nabokov’s ‘Other’ WorldConclusionBibliographyIndex...
