''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses
''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses ''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses
- 433 - solving. As has been shown in the chapters on these novels, Nabokov has taken the reader a long way in the discovery of the truth and reality concerning all these questions. But just as his own "reality" and identity escapes one in the end, one cannot follow him the whole way he has gone. He cannot disclose the whole reality of what he has perceived, because, as Mr. R. has also found, there is a limit to what one can express in words and there is a kind of knowledge that it is impossible to convey in words. Nabokov has taken the reader as far as he possibly could, but, as he has once said: I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not 10 have been expressed, had I not known more.
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- Page 417 and 418: - 409 - his own memory of the Past,
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- Page 421 and 422: - 413 - and Present are blended by
- Page 423 and 424: - 415 - of his publications as "buo
- Page 425 and 426: - 417 - tion. Pain and physical dea
- Page 427 and 428: - 418 - LOOKATTHEHARLEQUINS! "Look
- Page 429 and 430: - 420 - minor minds, and such vital
- Page 431 and 432: - 422 - Ada also appear in it: some
- Page 433 and 434: - 424 - he himself seems puzzled. I
- Page 435 and 436: - 426 - obvious anyway, is undersco
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- Page 449 and 450: - 439 - 111 112 113 114 115 116 Nor
- Page 451 and 452: - 441 - N0TES to THEEYE 1 Vladimir
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- Page 457 and 458: - 447 - 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Vladim
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- Page 463 and 464: - 453 - 60 61 62 63 Vladimir Naboko
- Page 465 and 466: -. 455 - N0TESt0PALEFIRE 1 2 3 4 5
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- Page 473 and 474: - 463 - NOTES to DESPAIR 1 . Vladim
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