Nabokov's Secret Trees

Nabokov's literary works are filled with networks of trees that create meaningful patterns of significance around his passionate interests, with nature serving as a constant undercurrent. Nabokov's Secret Trees explores this neglected area of his art, revealing how trees offer a rich and intricate field for structural, semantic, allusive, and metaphorical exploration. The book demonstrates that trees not only populate Nabokov's art in stunning abundance but also as mysterious natural entities, directly animating his works' worlds and his readers' experience of them.

Format: Hardback
Length: 302 pages
Publication date: 12 July 2024
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Vladimir Nabokov's literary works are filled with intricate networks of trees that serve as meaningful patterns of significance around his passionate interests, including consciousness, memory, creativity, epistemology, ethics, and love. His Secret Trees explores this neglected area of his art, revealing a previously unsuspected Nabokov who crafts intricate patterns of arboreal imagery lurking behind his often-baroque psychological narratives. The book uncovers how trees offer a rich and intricate field for structural, semantic, allusive, and metaphorical exploration, demonstrating that trees not only populate Nabokov's art in stunning abundance but also as mysterious natural entities, directly animating his works' worlds and his readers' experience of them. Based on the published corpus and archival materials, Nabokov's Secret Trees demonstrates that trees not only populate Nabokov's art in stunning abundance but also as mysterious natural entities, directly animating his works' worlds and his readers' experience of them.

Weight: 634g
Dimension: 163 x 240 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487554422