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Article: The road to nowhere, a road to glory: Vladimir Nabokov and Aleksandr Grin.(Critical Essay)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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The Road to Nowhere, A Road to Glory: Vladimir Nabokov and Alexander Grin by Margarit Tadevosyan
This article discusses the use of visual art as textual space in Vladimir Nabokov's and Aleksandr Grin's prose. Special attention is given to a device that both of these writers deploy: the literal transference of privileged characters between visual and verbal media. Through the use of this device, Nabokov and Grin transfer their characters to an embedded dimension of pure art that is not governed by restrictive ideology. The similarity of Nabokov's and Grin's manipulation of pictorial space, best illustrated by their novels Glory and The Road to Nowhere ...