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Vladimir Nabokov literary criticism Hungerford, Amy. “Lecture 5 – Vladimir Nabokov Lolita.” The first of three Yale Univ. video lectures on Nabokov. “Lecture 6 – Vladimir Nabokov. On Modernism and Nabokov’s relation to earlier writers T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust. "Lecture 7 – Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (cont).” Yale Open Courses, ENGL 291,…
“That Little Sob in the Spine”: Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation – Los Angeles Review of Books
Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sport Tim Harte: “Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sports,"Nabokov Studies12.1 (2009): 147-166.
Nabokov in Berlin | Standpoint He lived from 1932-37 with his wife and son at Nestorstrasse 22, in the smart, quiet residential area of Wilmersdorf, comparable with London’s Chelsea. The unfussy mansion block was his first real home after the curtailed teenage years in Russia. The previous decade in Berlin had been a series of…
Vladimir Nabokov, Scientific Genius Since the success of Lolita in the mid-1950s, Nabokovites—both lepidopterists and literary critics—have tried to re-create his exhilarating field trips, as though the way he captured butterflies might reveal something about the way he captured ideas and details in his recondite, meticulous prose. In 2000, Robert Michael Pyle, co-editor of the…
Nabokov’s Butterflies, Introduction NO writer of Nabokov’s stature, not even Goethe, has been a more passionate student of the natural world or a more accomplished scientist. No one has ever evoked with more enchantment how a child’s first passion for nature can grow into lifelong love and devotion. In the years after Lolita thrust him…
Why Nabokov’s Speak, Memory Still Speaks to Us Earlier this year, when the New York Times asked novelist and essayist Roger Rosenblatt to name the best memoir he’d read recently, he was unequivocal in his reply. “Speak, Memory, recently or ever,” Rosenblatt told the Times. He was referring to the classic account by Vladimir Nabokov…