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Gavriel Shapiro, The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009. xxi, 291 pp. $45.00.

Gavriel Shapiro, The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting. Evanston, IL: Northwestern... Nabokov’s novels are marked by a distinct visual quality which renders their detailed fictional worlds almost palpably real for the reader. It might have been Nabokov’s self-diagnosed synaesthesia that sharpened his perception of the distinct hues and subtle shades of colors which are evident in his fictional worlds. He also had a well-documented interest in visual art and thought of literature and painting as closely related art forms, as his whimsical notion of the reading process indicates: “We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to painting) that takes in the whole picture [of a book] and then can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting” ( Lectures on Literature , 1980, p. 3). Gavriel Shapiro’s book on the role of painting in Nabokov’s work contributes to a recent trend in Nabokov studies, which investigates Nabokov’s engagement with other art forms, including cinema (another distinctly visual art form), photography, theater, music and ballet. With regard to painting, this book follows on from several existing studies, including Shapiro’s own articles on the subject and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Gavriel Shapiro, The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009. xxi, 291 pp. $45.00.

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 48 (4): 2 – Jan 1, 2014
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Nabokov’s novels are marked by a distinct visual quality which renders their detailed fictional worlds almost palpably real for the reader. It might have been Nabokov’s self-diagnosed synaesthesia that sharpened his perception of the distinct hues and subtle shades of colors which are evident in his fictional worlds. He also had a well-documented interest in visual art and thought of literature and painting as closely related art forms, as his whimsical notion of the reading process indicates: “We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to painting) that takes in the whole picture [of a book] and then can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting” ( Lectures on Literature , 1980, p. 3). Gavriel Shapiro’s book on the role of painting in Nabokov’s work contributes to a recent trend in Nabokov studies, which investigates Nabokov’s engagement with other art forms, including cinema (another distinctly visual art form), photography, theater, music and ballet. With regard to painting, this book follows on from several existing studies, including Shapiro’s own articles on the subject and the

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