A Guide to Berlin Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Guide to Berlin.

A Guide to Berlin Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Guide to Berlin.
This section contains 3,092 words
(approx. 8 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the A Guide to Berlin Study Guide

Turkevich Naumann is a professor at Douglas College, Rutgers University. In the following excerpt, she offers her interpretation of the significance of the imagery in "A Guide to Berlin."

Berlin is the city that is almost always a background theme in Nabokov's early stories. For him Berlin did not have the special, personal, social, or political connotation that Paris had for Balzac or London had

for Dickens. It assumed importance because it actually surrounded him as he wrote. Apropos of this, Nabokov said: "I have always been indifferent to social problems, merely using the material that happened to be near, as a voluble diner pencils a street corner on the table cloth or arranges a crumb and two olives in a diagrammatic position between menu and salt cellar." Berlin is the setting for his novels Mashen'ka and Korol' dama valet, for instance. In Dar, Fedor's peregrinations through...

(read more)

This section contains 3,092 words
(approx. 8 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the A Guide to Berlin Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
A Guide to Berlin from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.