Publications
Publication details [#19421]
Mazierska, Ewa. 2010. Escape into a different person, escape into a different reality: Despair by Vladimir Nabokov and RainerWerner Fassbinder. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 3 (1) : 29–42.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Title as subject
Abstract
This article discusses Despair (1978) by Vladimir Nabokov and RainerWerner Fassbinder’s film adaptation as stories of escape. In both works the protagonist, Hermann Hermann, tries to flee into a different identity and ontological order. However, the author of this article argues that Nabokov’s Hermann wants to escape from fiction to reality, whilst Fassbinder’s protagonist strives to escape from reality into fiction. From this difference the author derives some characteristics of the moral positions of Nabokov and Fassbinder.
Source : Based on abstract in journal