Vladimir Nabokov and the art of play /
In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, tennis, and boxing, the play...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2011
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| Series: | Oxford English Monographs
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