SOURCE: “On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism,” in Nabokov and the Novel, Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 158-71.
In the following essay, Pifer argues that frequent critical charges that Nabokov's novels represent the work of an aesthetic disposition devoid of human concern misrepresent the writer and his work.
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