Table of Contents:
  • Nabokov in literary history
  • The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse
  • Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance
  • Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister
  • Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust
  • Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov
  • Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics.