Titlebook: Nabokov‘s Eros and the Poetics of Desire; Maurice Couturier Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

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Eve’s Dupesd dismal disappointments’,”. and that obviously included Sebastian Knight. She is incapable of really loving anyone but herself and takes pleasure in bullying men, as she does the narrator. Hermann in . as well as the protagonist of . are married to heartless wives.

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In a Glass Darkly: ,Have religious and sexual preferences any bearing on the moral behavior of the two protagonists? Why is it that the sexual scenes are written in a much less poetic style than in . or . Does a political upheaval like the Zemblan revolution have any connection with its protagonists’ sexual mores?

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Recreating the Androgyn: ,. And in ., H.H. discovers that he loves his nymphet only when he can no longer have sex with her. Whatever sexual transgressions or perversions his characters indulge in, they remain frustrated and never reach the ideal love they dream of.

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and sexual behaviors of Nabokov‘s characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic excellence of his novels and accounts for the unfolding of the plots.978-1-349-48738-7978-1-137-40459-6

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