SOURCE: “Myth or Parody: The Play of the Letter in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading,” in Memory and Literature: Intertexuality in Russian Modernism, translated by Roy Sellars and Anthony Wall, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 283-97.
In the following essay, Lachmann analyzes the signification of “alphabet games” in Invitation to a Beheading.
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