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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written from late 1938 to early 1939 and published in 1941 by New Directions Publishers. Ostensibly Nabokov's first major work in English, it was composed in Paris while the author sat in...


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Philological Quarterly
Nabokov's Primer: letters and numbers in the real life of Sebastian Knight.(Vladimir Nabokov, fictional real life)(Critical Essay)
03/22/2003: 9,038 words, approx. 30 pages
Sebastian Knight, a cipher in a novel, possesses no real life; what Nabokov labels as The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is, of course, mislabeled inasmuch as the words apply to the story the book coyly tells, as if the life were being...
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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Fiction and "real life": Vargas Llosa's 'The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta' and Nabokov's 'The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.' (Mario Vargas Llosa and Vladimir Nabokov)
01/01/1994: 9,340 words, approx. 31 pages
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1980s novel 'The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta' is similar to Vladimir Nabokov's 1930s novel 'The Real Life of Sebastian Knight' since both stories engage the relation of fiction to reality. Vargas Llosa's story is of an attempted biography of a...
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The New York Observer
Nabokov\'d5s Laura Is Saved From Burning; Who Was This Woman?
12/11/2005: 2,957 words, approx. 10 pages
Breathe easy: I think it’s safe to say without much exaggeration (and only an understandable modicum of self-congratulation) that The Observer has saved Laura. Saved the last, incomplete, unseen Vladimir Nabokov manuscript from a threat of destruction. In a convoluted way, my plea to Dmitri...
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The New York Observer
Nabokov's Laura Is Saved From Burning; Who Was This Woman?
12/11/2005: 2,961 words, approx. 10 pages
Breathe easy: I think it’s safe to say without much exaggeration (and only an understandable modicum of self-congratulation) that The Observer has saved Laura. Saved the last, incomplete, unseen Vladimir Nabokov manuscript from a threat of destruction. In a convoluted way, my plea to...
 


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Critical Essay by Paul B. Morgan
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In the following essay, Morgan argues that there is “a series of deliberate analogies between” Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the French courtly stag-hunt poetry of the thirteenth century.


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