Maxim Shrayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5980619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxim Shrayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxim |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrayer |
| SIGNATURE | SHRAYER M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Netting the Butterfly Man
In this essay, we examine the role of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (1992; Eng. tr. 1996), both as a character in the novel (as the unannounced "butterfly man") and as an intertextual and metaphysical point of reference. It is our contention that this authorial intervention on Sebald's part may stem from the fact that both the German-born Sebald and the Russian-born Nabokov were spiritual witnesses to the Shoah, and though they…
The World of Nabokov's Stories
The world of Nabokov's stories
This is a choice magazine outstanding academic book. A century after his birth, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) remains controversial, provocative, and cool. Yet while he receives acclaim as a major American writer, few of his admirers in the West know the unique place he occupies in his native Russian tradition. In this captivating interpretation of Nabokov's career through the prism of his short fiction, Maxim D. Shrayer explores how Nabokov eclip…
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The world of Nabokov's stories
This is a choice magazine outstanding academic book. A century after his birth, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) remains controversial, provocative, and cool. Yet while he receives acclaim as a major American writer, few of his admirers in the West know the unique place he occupies in his native Russian tradition. In this captivating interpretation of Nabokov's career through the prism of his short fiction, Maxim D. Shrayer explores how Nabokov eclip…
The World of Nabokov's Stories
Netting the Butterfly Man
In this essay, we examine the role of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (1992; Eng. tr. 1996), both as a character in the novel (as the unannounced "butterfly man") and as an intertextual and metaphysical point of reference. It is our contention that this authorial intervention on Sebald's part may stem from the fact that both the German-born Sebald and the Russian-born Nabokov were spiritual witnesses to the Shoah, and though they…
Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (2 works) · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (2 works) · Character (mathematics (1 work) · Criticism and interpretation (1 work) · Dialogic (1 work)