01801cam a2200337 i 4500 on1162186911 OCoLC ta 210219s2021 ilu b 001 0 eng 9780810142459 (pbk.) 0810142457 (pbk.) 9780810142466 (hbk.) 0810142465 (hbk.) (OCoLC)1162186911 PG3015.5.E74 S64 2021 Spektor, Alexander. Reader as accomplice : narrative ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov / Alexander Spektor. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2021] xii, 243 p. Studies in Russian literature and theory Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Dostoevsky and Nabokov: The Case for Narrative Ethics -- Between Sin and Redemption: Narrative as the Conduit for Responsibility in Dostoevsky's "The Meek One" -- From Violence to Silence: Vicissitudes of Reading (in) The Idiot -- The Metaphysics of Authorship: Narrative Ethics in Nabokov's Despair -- The Dangers of Aesthetic Bliss: The Double Bind of Language in Bend Sinister -- Conclusion. "This book argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking morally laden plots to the ethical questions raised by narrative fiction at the formal level"-- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Criticism and interpretation. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 Criticism and interpretation. Ethics in literature. Literature and morals. Narration (Rhetoric) Moral and ethical aspects. Studies in Russian literature and theory. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 PG3015.5.E74 S64 2021 PNLIB21061055 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 1241 1241