Le Prix Zoran Kuzmanovich 2018 décerné à Agnès Edel-Roy

Sa thèse, intitulée « Une "démocratie magique" : politique et littérature dans les romans de Vladimir Nabokov », soutenue en 2018, sous la direction de Vincent Ferré, à l'Université de Paris-Est, a fait l'objet de l'appréciation suivante :
 

« Agnès Edel-Roy’s PhD dissertation renews our understanding of Nabokov in relation to politics and to the questions of tyranny and control, arguing in favor of the relevance of Nabokov’s work today. Edel-Roy characterizes Nabokov as an author who favors emancipation, celebrates freedom and sees literature as a form of democracy. The “magic democracy” of fiction in the title is a quote from Nabokov’s lecture on Dickens. Edel-Roy’s work shows excellent knowledge of Nabokov’s Russian, French and American texts and contexts, as well as of Nabokov criticism in Russian, French and English. Building on existing research in Nabokov studies, Edel-Roy’s reading is a plea for better historicizing and contextualizing Nabokov within the 20th and the 21st centuries. Her ambition is not only to read between the lines of Nabokov’s pronouncements about his work, but also to engage in a dialogue with Nabokov scholarship. Agnès Edel-Roy’s dissertation is ambitious and impressive in its scope and richness. The vastness, nuance and quality of her knowledge of Nabokov’s work, its reception and historical contexts are simply astounding. »
 

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Agnès Edel-Roy est docteure et membre associée du LIS à l'UFR des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil