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Vladimir Nabokov



  • Johnson, Kurt, and Steve Coates. Nabokov's blues: The scientific odyssey of a literary genius. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-137330-6 (very accessibly written)
  • Sartori, Michel, ed. Les Papillons de Nabokov. [The butterflies of Nabokov.] Lausanne: Musée cantonal de Zoologie, 1993. ISBN 2-9700051-0-7 (exhibition catalogue, primarily in English)
  • Zimmer, Dieter. A guide to Nabokov's butterflies and moths. Privately published, 2001. ISBN 3-00-007609-3 (web page)

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Trivia

Nabokov is mentioned in the lyrics to the 1980 pop song Don't Stand So Close to Me by the British rock band The Police.[29]

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Notes

  1. ^ Nabokov said, "I do not believe that any particular writer has had any definite influence on me." (Strong Opinions, p. 46.) The list given above includes writers who he admired (including Mayne Reid, whose work Nabokov admired as a child) and writers he alluded to in fiction (such as Poe). Such a list might be extended greatly.
  2. ^ The Modern Library | 100 Best | Novels
  3. ^ For Vera's varied roles, see her New York Times obituary, "Vera Nabokov, 89, Wife, Muse and Agent," April 11, 1991; the non-incinerated Lolita appears in Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, p. 170; Vera's charm appears in both the Times obituary and p. 601 of Boyd.
  4. ^ Article, Medford Mail Tribune, Nov. 5, 2006, p. 2, "Snapshot: Nabokov's Retreat"
  5. ^ The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir E. Alexandrov (editor). Garland Publishing. New York (1995) ISNB 0-8153-0354-8, pages xxix-l
  6. ^ Interview with Dmitri Nabokov on NPR - April 30, 2008 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90073521
  7. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Son Plans to Publish Nabokov's Last Novel". The New York Times, April 28, 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2008.
  8. ^ Whitman, Alden. "Nabokov, Nearing 70, Describes His 'New Girl'." The New York Times, April 19, 1969, http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed December 12, 2007).
  9. ^ This lament came in 1941, with Nabokov an apprentice American for less than one year. Nabokov, Vladimir. Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971, p. 50. Nabokov, never pen-shy, added in parentheses "this is a good one." The Updike gloss appears in Updike, John, Hugging the Shore, p. 221. Later in the Wilson letters, Nabokov offers a solid, non-comic appraisal: "Conrad knew how to handle readymade English better than I; but I know better the other kind. He never sinks to the depths of my solecisms, but neither does he scale my verbal peaks." This is in November of 1950, p. 282.
  10. ^ The Garland Companion to VN, ibid, pages 412ff
  11. ^ The Garland Companion to VN, ibid, pages 628ff
  12. ^ collected by Fredson Bowers in 1980 and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
  13. ^ butterflies
  14. ^ Wood, James. "Discussing Nabokov", Slate. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  15. ^ Siegel, Jules. "Who is Thomas Pynchon, and why did he take off with my wife?" Playboy, March 1977.
  16. ^ Strehle, Susan. "Actualism: Pynchon's Debt to Nabokov," Contemporary Literature 24.1, Spring 1983. 30-50.
  17. ^ "John Banville", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  18. ^ Gussow, Mel. "Toasting (and Analyzing) Nabokov; Cornell Honors the Renaissance Man Who, oh Yes, Wrote 'Lolita'", The New York Times, 1998-09-15.
  19. ^ http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/Rushdie.cover.gl.html "Bombs, bands and birds recalled as novelist Salman Rushdie trips down memory lane"], Cornell Chronicle, 2007-10-23. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  20. ^ "An Interview with Edmund White", Bookslut, February 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  21. ^ Chabon, Michael (July 2006). It Changed My Life. www.michaelchabon.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
  22. ^ vn collations
  23. ^ "Q & A with Jeffrey Eugenides", 5th Estate. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  24. ^ "A Conversation with T. C. Boyle", Penguin Reading Guides.
  25. ^ "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited", The New York Times, 2005-01-16. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  26. ^ "An interview with Marisha Pessl", Bookslut.com, September 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
  27. ^ "Zadie Smith", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  28. ^ (French) Lila Azam Zanganeh, « Le dernier Nabokov », Le Monde, # 19684, May 10th, 2008, p. 16.
  29. ^ "LyricsFreak" Retrieved on 6 June 2008

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Works by Vladimir Nabokov
Novels
Short
stories
Russian: "The Wood-Sprite" • "Russian Spoken Here" • "Sounds" • "Wingstroke" • "Gods" • "A Matter of Chance" • "The Seaport" • "Revenge" • "Beneficence" • "Details of a Sunset" • "The Thunderstorm" • "La Veneziana" • "Bachmann" • "The Dragon" • Christmas" • "A Letter That Never Reached Russia" • "The Fight" • "The Return of Chorb" • "A Guide to Berlin" • "A Nursery Tale" • "Terror" • "Razor" • "The Passenger • "The Doorbell" • "An Affair of Honor" • "The Christmas Story" • "The Potato Elf" • "The Aurelian" • "A Dashing Fellow" • "A Bad Day" • "The Visit to the Museum" • "A Busy Man" • "Terra Incognita" • "The Reunion" • "Lips to Lips" • "Orache" • "Music" • "Perfection" • "The Admiralty Spire" • "The Leonardo" • "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" • "The Circle" • "A Russian Beauty" • Breaking the News" • "Torpid Smoke" • "Recruiting" • "A Slice of Life" • "Spring in Fialta" • "Cloud, Castle, Lake" • "Tyrants Destroyed" • "Lik" • "Vasiliy Shishkov" • "Ultima Thule" • "Solus Rex"

French: "Mademoiselle O"

English: "The Assistant Producer" • "That in Aleppo Once..." • "A Forgotten Poet" • "Time and Ebb" • "Conversation Piece, 1945" • "Signs and Symbols" • "First Love" • "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" • "The Vane Sisters" • "Lance" • "Easter Rain"
Plays
Death • The Grandfather • The North Pole • The Tragedy of Mr. Morn • The Man from the USSR • The Event • The Waltz Invention
Non-fiction
Speak, Memory • Strong Opinions • Nikolai Gogol • Lectures on Literature • Lectures on Russian Literature • Lectures on Don Quixote • The Nabokov-Wilson letters • Selected Letters, 1940-1977 • Notes on Prosody
Miscellanea
Poems and Problems • Lolita: A Screenplay • The Annotated Lolita • Carrousel
Persondata
NAME Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg, Russia
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1977
PLACE OF DEATH Montreux, Switzerland



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