The article examines Nabokov’s theory and practice of self-translation in three paradigmatic cases: the novel Laughter in the Dark, the short story “Vozvraschenie Chorba”, and the autobiography Speak, Memory, self-translated into Russian as Drugie berega (1954), re-written in English in a revised and extended edition in 1966, and somehow completed in a fictional text titled Look at the Harlequins! (1974).
Self-Translation in Nabokov’s Fiction: Three Paradigmatic Cases
Michele Russo
2020-01-01
Abstract
The article examines Nabokov’s theory and practice of self-translation in three paradigmatic cases: the novel Laughter in the Dark, the short story “Vozvraschenie Chorba”, and the autobiography Speak, Memory, self-translated into Russian as Drugie berega (1954), re-written in English in a revised and extended edition in 1966, and somehow completed in a fictional text titled Look at the Harlequins! (1974).File in questo prodotto:
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