Herbert Grabes 
Fictitious Biographies [PDF ebook] 
Vladimir Nabokov’s English Novels

i-iv — CONTENTS — IN PLACE OF AN INTRODUCTION — I. Truth and Fiction in Literary Biography: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight — II. FICTITIOUS BIOGRAPHY AS PARADIGM FOR THE BETTER WORLD OF ART: BEND SINISTER — III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS DEMONSTRATION OF “PRECISE FATE”: LOLITA — IV. BIOGRAPHY AS A BALANCE BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY: PNIN — V. THE COMBINATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AS “CORRELATED PATTERN IN THE GAME”: PALE FIRE — VI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS THE TRIUMPH OF SUBJECTIVITY: ADA OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE — VII. BIOGRAPHY AS SINKING BACK INTO THE PAST: TRANSPARENT THINGS — VIII. PARODIED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS SATIRE ON THE UNITY OF LIFE AND WORK: LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS — SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY