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June 12, 2026Modern fiction studies

Narrative Surveillance and Omniscience: Traces of Historiographic Metafiction in Nabokov's Work

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Essay repositions Nabokov's work within historiographic metafiction, revealing the ties between narrative and political repression.

Key Points

  • The essay aims to explore Nabokov's connection to historiographic metafiction and examine how his work reflects political themes.
  • Conducted close readings of Nabokov's stories from his Berlin period and later works like 'Double Talk' and 'Pnin'.
  • Analyzed the relationship between omniscient narration and authoritarianism.
  • Investigated the historicist impulse in Nabokov's writings.
  • Identified links between Nabokov's narrative structures and the surveillance culture of 1930s Germany.
  • Showed how 'Pnin' exposes ethical and narrative issues tied to omniscient narration concerning the Holocaust.
  • Revealed Nabokov's early writing as foundational to the development of historiographic metafiction.

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Siggy Frank (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2ba4a18101cf8926f02f69https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2026.a992347
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