CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 1993
Vladimir Nabokov's text-oriented writing is the essence of postmodernist writing. Writers such as John Barth have acknowledged him as an engendering spirit of postmodernism but found his vision too undemocratic for him to be a postmodernist. However, it is Nabokov's detachment from the real world which made it possible for him to write of unreal worlds. The date of publication of 'Lolita,' in relation to works such as William Gaddis' 'The Recognition' and Barth's 'The Sot-Weed Factor' suggests the postmodernist context for Nabokov's American period.
In April 1988, Robert Coover gathered a gro...
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