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In her introduction to the Arabic edition of *That Other World: Nabokov and the Enigma of Exile*, Azar Nafisi notes that: “Nabokov owes the initial spark of his full consciousness to a joke, and concludes that, according to the theory of recapitulation, the first beings on Earth to become aware of time are also the first beings to smile.”
Nabokov’s ideas, in conclusion, form the central theme of his work, “time as a prison.” This theme lays the foundation for his published text, shaping its twists and turns.
“In this book—*That Other World: Nabokov and the Enigma of Exile*—I embark on a profound exploration of the development of these thematic plans: exile, reality versus dream, cruelty and pain, art and love (or love and art): these are the building blocks with which Nabokov constructed his narrative world.”
This book, “That Other World,” is less the result of a conscious decision than of a fascination with Nabokov’s themes and the awakening they stirred within me as a reader. I see Nabokov’s spiral glowing in my mind, its flame rising from the depths of utter darkness, its twists radiating color.
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