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the conventions of both prose show that one man is capable
and drama through the sto- of telling a complex story that
ry’s form and content so as to lives and breathes beyond
explore these ideas in way any single “performance” (or
that he couldn’t in either a in this case, any single read-
pure novel or play. Combined ing or interpretation).
together,
these
the
blending
mediums’
of
elements
In regards to form, Nabokov’s
makes for an interesting twist
choice for the story’s primary
on modern artistic conven-
medium is prose. Why would
tions whose purpose is to
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