| Titel: | Escape into a different person, escape into a different reality: Despair by Vladimir Nabokov and Rainer Werner Fassbinder; |
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| In: | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 3, 2010, 1, S. 29-42 |
| veröffentlicht: |
Intellect
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| Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
| Umfang: | 29-42 |
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| ISSN: |
1753-6421
1753-643X |
| DOI: | 10.1386/jafp.3.1.29/1 |
| veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Kollektion: | Intellect (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>This article discusses <jats:italic>Despair</jats:italic> (1978) by Vladimir Nabokov and Rainer Werner 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, I argue 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 I derive some characteristics of the moral positions of Nabokov and Fassbinder.</jats:p> |