{"product_id":"the-humour-of-vladimir-nabokov-mind-and-matter-9781399519229","title":"The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Benedict Grant\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592196145303,"sku":"9781399519229","price":2075.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399519229.webp?v=1774976798","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-humour-of-vladimir-nabokov-mind-and-matter-9781399519229","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}