“Recognizing shared experience, and wanting to, are at the basis of fiction, and the social life fiction feeds on. But psychology should do more than just take these facts for granted: it should help us explain them.”
This essay examines Nabokov as a critic and a writer in relation to psychology. Portraying fiction as an experience, Brian Boyd shows how Nabokov’s artful and precise observations/designs pre-dates modern psychological findings.
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