![]() The miniature is not flawed, no, but the most splendid features of the great model have been just slightly parodied, out of playfulness almost." Gallant found the short novel to be "as casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. In The New York Times Book Review, writer Mavis Gallant wrote, "Vladimir Nabokov, having spent his life building the Taj Mahal, has decided at the age of 73-for his own amusement and incidentally for our pleasure-to construct a small mock replica. 99-123 Boyd, Brian: 'Transparent Things'. Zimmer with additions by Jeff Edmunds BACK TO MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE Transparent Things Alter, Robert: Mimesis and the Motive for Fiction: Image and Ideas in American Culture(ed. In recounting Person's story, the narrator(s) guide(s) the reader through themes of time, love, authorship, and the metaphysics of memory. Vladimir Nabokov, A Bibliography of Criticism by Dieter E. Finally, Person's fourth trip provides an opportunity for reflection on his turbulent past. His third trip involves tragedy, murder, and madness. ![]() In his second trip, Person's publisher sends him to interview R., a gifted and eccentric author. Transparent things, through which the past shines Man-made objects, or natural ones, inert in themselves but much used by careless life (you are thinking. Person first visits the village as a young man, along with his father. Transparent Things: A Novel Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Snippet view - 1972 Transparent Things: A Novel Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. This short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, a young American editor, and the memory of his four trips to a small village in Switzerland over the course of nearly two decades. Transparent Things is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1972. ![]()
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