Demon or Doll. Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture (review)

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sian and French painters (especially H. Rousseau and B. Kustodiev), evoked in the novel. She also explicates the function that these mixed-media quotations assume within Nabokov's concept of the novel. She also expands the range of the mixed-media cross-fertilizations with sculpture and other arts. Her most crucial contribution in this chapter, however, is to the very important theme of painting as the moving force behind Nabokov's imagination.