'mise-en-abyme' in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays | Bookmarker

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term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

find in those texts miniature versions of Pnin's Russian doll structure, mise-en-abymes placed by Nabokov into his novel

—p.54 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith

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