Vladimir Nabokov

Boyd, Brian. Review of Nabokov’s Otherworld by Vladimir Alexandrov. 1992

Author(s)
Bibliographic title
Review of Nabokov’s Otherworld by Vladimir Alexandrov
Periodical or collection
Modern Fiction Studies
Periodical issue
v. 38, no. 2
Page(s)
477-78
Publication year
Abstract
Criticizes Nabokov's Otherworld for making metaphysical explanations a first rather than a last resort, for introudcing Gnosticism, which was foreign to Nabokov, and for favoring the otherworldly so much that a suicide becomes a hero.