New Title from Academic Studies Press: Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's 'The
Real Life of Sebastian Knight'by Gerard de Vries
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir
Nabokov's most autobiographical novels and it has often been
observed that Sebastian's passionate affair with the femme fatale
Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov's infatuation with
Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also
conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man,
which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov's brother
Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary references and
allusions, and by disregarding the deceptive guiding by the narrator
(Sebastian's half-brother), this moving story about Sebastian's
silent love becomes brightly visible.
Silent Love The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's 'The Real Life
of Sebastian Knight'
by Gerard de Vries
Hardback, 232 pages
9781618114990
Price: $79.00 Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Annotations
Chapter 3: Motifs: Narrative
Chapter 4: Motifs: Identities
Chapter 5: Motifs: Death and Beyond
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Works Cited
Index