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- Frontmatter i
- Preface iii
- Contents vii
- CHAPTER I. The Question of Character 1
- CHAPTER II. Consciousness, Real Life, and Fairytale Freedom: King, Queen, Knave 14
- CHAPTER III. Breaking the Law of Averages: Invitation to a Beheading 49
- CHAPTER IV. Putting Two and One Together: Bend Sinister 68
- CHAPTER V. Singularity and the Double’s Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire 97
- CHAPTER VI. The Question of Realism 119
- CHAPTER VII. Heaven, Hell, and the Realm of Art: Adas Dark Paradise 132
- CHAPTER VIII. On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism 158
- Notes 173
- Index 195
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface iii
- Contents vii
- CHAPTER I. The Question of Character 1
- CHAPTER II. Consciousness, Real Life, and Fairytale Freedom: King, Queen, Knave 14
- CHAPTER III. Breaking the Law of Averages: Invitation to a Beheading 49
- CHAPTER IV. Putting Two and One Together: Bend Sinister 68
- CHAPTER V. Singularity and the Double’s Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire 97
- CHAPTER VI. The Question of Realism 119
- CHAPTER VII. Heaven, Hell, and the Realm of Art: Adas Dark Paradise 132
- CHAPTER VIII. On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism 158
- Notes 173
- Index 195