The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov
€ 33,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781399519229 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Paul Benedict Grant |
| Editora | Edinburgh University Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 312 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,476 |
| Data de Publicação | 31/03/2026 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 31,98 |
| Imposto | € 1,92 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 33,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 1 unidade em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.