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Session Submission Type: Panel
This panel offers three new approaches to Nabokov's first major novel, The Defense. Papers will focus on questions of authorship, mechanization and the connections between Soviet and emigré literature.
Maestro Perekatov: The Twelve Chairs by Il'f and Petrov and the History of Chess Journalism in Russia - Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton U
'That’s Not a Real Person': Automata and Mechanistic Reproduction in Nabokov’s 'The Defense' - Meghan Vicks, Independent Scholar
'The Defense' as a Psychoanalytic Film - Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley