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From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
Lev Grossman mentions the ways in which Sergei Nabokov "haunt[ed] his
brother's fiction." I have been working on this topic for several years,
and I invite anyone who finds it interesting to read my essay, "The Small
Furious Devil: Memory in 'Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster,'" which
appeared in _A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction_, e3d.
Gennady Barabtarlo and Charles Nicol (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 193-216.
Briefly, my essay argues that Nabokov transformed his anxiety about his
relationship with Sergey into several of his Doppelganger fictions
(especially _Despair_ and _The Real Life of Sebastian Knight_). The essay
analyzes Nabokov's odd story "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" as
an example of this transformative practice.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
ssweeney@holycross.edu
From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
Lev Grossman mentions the ways in which Sergei Nabokov "haunt[ed] his
brother's fiction." I have been working on this topic for several years,
and I invite anyone who finds it interesting to read my essay, "The Small
Furious Devil: Memory in 'Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster,'" which
appeared in _A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction_, e3d.
Gennady Barabtarlo and Charles Nicol (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 193-216.
Briefly, my essay argues that Nabokov transformed his anxiety about his
relationship with Sergey into several of his Doppelganger fictions
(especially _Despair_ and _The Real Life of Sebastian Knight_). The essay
analyzes Nabokov's odd story "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" as
an example of this transformative practice.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
ssweeney@holycross.edu