Nabokov

This office has taken a long time to say no to Nabokov's Lolita which you and I both know was impossible at least for us.

Nabokov says, pointedly, that, "We were all of the same opinion. It was just a torso, and not a glorious torso. "

"If I told you, " Nabokov demurred, with teasing courtesy, "that would be an interview. "

"Fortunately, " said Nabokov in his own lecture on Kafka, "Brod did not comply with his friend's wishes. "

This remark has been used by the Nabokov estate as a prescient approval of its failure to destroy The Original of Laura.

So how good was The Original of Laura, and what was its place in the Nabokov canon?

"Nabokov felt that the thrill of discovery was one of the highest things life had to offer, " Boyd says.

Nabokov routinely composed on such cards, shuffling and reshuffling the deck as he wrote. It was like constructing a puzzle.

Nabokov, the authorial prankster, buried Easter eggs of every sort for careful readers to unearth.

Mitgang says he found Nabokov to be "very cordial" , but that he got little else from the meeting.

Vladimir Nabokov looking out of his car holding a frankly primitive pencil.

As a coda, Mr Horowitz compares the experiences of Thomas Mann and Vladimir Nabokov in the United States.

This charm to mainly from the "Lolita" and intricate narrative structure and that the magic styles, Nabokov-language style.

"Most of his tail was gone, " Nabokov writes of the chipmunk, "the stump was bleeding. "

Vladimir Nabokov's response to this routine inquiry was at once moving and mysterious.

In Vladimir Nabokov's memoir, "Speak, Memory" , he describes coming upon a cat torturing a chipmunk.

Novelist Edmund White, whose early work had been championed by Nabokov, was equally blunt.

When Vera Nabokov died in 1991, there was no escaping the family curse.

Those for whom Nabokov is, in the words of Martin Amis, "the laureate of cruelty" , see his deathbed decree as peculiarly vexing.

Writing on index cards, in pencil, had become Nabokov's preferred method of composition.

The eccentric, worldwide fraternity of Nabokov scholars had a field day.

In Vladimir Nabokov's [3] memoir, "Speak, Memory" , he describes coming upon a cat torturing a chipmunk.

Nabokov eventually found his niche, teaching at Wellesley College and Cornell and finally publishing Lolita, after many rejections, in 1955.

Lolita " is very special, different from nabokov's other novels, this book is afraid of stars can spit a river. "

Instantly, everyone from broadcasters to people who don't know anything about hockey denounced Nabokov's play.

The Style of Self-cancelling Assertion: How does Heller Differ from Wilde? From Nabokov? From Humbert?

Nabokov's unreliable narrator can hardly be included in the category of the retardates or the morally corrupted.

e critic, Vladimir Nabokov once observed, reads not with his brain but with his backbone.

An only child, Dmitri has always expressed a quasi-tribal loyalty to the Nabokov name, but that is not the whole story.

The theme of the book, central to Nabokov, is Death and what lies beyond it.

In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, Nabokov embarked on a second exile to America, landing in New York with just $100.

Nabokov gives the reader four cantos of Pale Fire, 999 lines of rhyming couplets, plus an editor's foreword and scholarly annotations.

As one of the most important and original writers in the 20th century, Nabokov had made great achievements in novels, poetry and drama.

When "Tool" first surfaced in Nabokov's notebooks, in 1974, it was Dying Is Fun and then The Opposite of Laura.

Last week, his cousin Ivan Nabokov described to the Observer the executor's anguish.

For Nabokov, art and life were always "a game of intricate enchantment and deception" .

Nabokov's Reflections of Art That Transcend "the Exhaustion of Literature"

In Nabokov's novel "Lolita" , the male protagonist is a typical example of Humbert.

Nabokov came from a family of almost impossible grandeur, Russian liberals who fled the Crimea in 1919.

Addicted to Notecards: Vladimir Nabokov used 5- by 8-inch index cards to compose and order the scenes in his novels.

With artful cunning, Nabokov proceeded to reveal a mystery that is only now, 33 years later, on the brink of being solved.

Nabokov exiled to write a short story period: the YaErDa Fidel is undoubtedly one of the spring of the classic of classic.

Nabokov, V. Collected Works of V. Nabokov. Moscow: Soviet Muscovite Press, 1989.

So the lolita of manuscript, 1954 nabokov prescient, no real publishing.

Selected Works of V. Nabokov. Vol. 1. Moscow: Truth Press, 1990.

Nabokov's Perception of Reality and the Self-consciousness of His American Novels

Overview to Nabokov's Literature World From the Intercultural Point of View

Cultural Context and the Self-reflexive Writing of Nabokov's American Period

Changes of Nabokov's Translation Strategies

An Exploration of the Poetics of Nabokov's Early Works

A Study on Nabokov's Literary Thinking

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov