Nabokov’s telephone. Phoning into existence
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1209
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.159
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.159
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Romero Jódar, AndrésFecha
2006Resumen
The telephone in contemporary “Western” literature may be said to have acquired a certain metafictional relevance after the late-modern and postmodern art forms. One example of this interpretative approach can be found in the works of Vladimir Nabokov’s, where recurrent patterns can be perceived through the metafictional symbolism of the telephone. The aim of this essay is the analysis of the telephone in the Nabokovian literary world inside that symbolic status of a metafictional and metaphysical device. The symbolical telephone can be read in terms of the existentialist Angst for a disabled communication in a literary space where the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred. El teléfono en la literatura contemporánea “occidental” ha adquirido una cierta relevancia metafictional tras los períodos tarde-modernista y postmodernista. Como ejemplo de esta interpretación cabe mencionar las obras de Vladimir Nabokov, donde se pueden encontrar modelos recurrentes a través del simbo...
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English literature
Vladimir Nabokov
Late-modernism
Metafiction
Telephone as literary symbol
Existentialism
Angst
Communication in literature
Mediality in literature
Literatura inglesa
Modernismo tardío
Metaficción
Teléfono como símbolo literario
Existencialismo
Comunicación en literatura
Medialidad en literatura