Nabokov, Vladimir

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale fire. New York Putman, 1962. 

Nabokov, Vladimir. The real life of Sebastian Knight. London Wiedenfeld Nicholson, 1960. 

Nabokov, Vladimir. Ada. New York McGraw-Hill, 1969.-----------. Pale Fire. New York ... 

Nabokov, Vladimir. Bend Sinister. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1947. 

Nabokov, Vladimir, Strong Opinions (London Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1973), P-117-... 

Nabokov, Vladimir, On a Book Entitled Lolita in The Annotated Lolita (New York Vintage, 1991), pp. 316-317. 

VK I, too, need dialogue, discourse. But not at all costs. In the 1970s, Vladimir Nabokov s maxim of never belonging to a party or a particular group moved and influenced me in particular. Any membership in an association, party or individual group necessarily limits and constricts artistic freedom, since all groups, whether in the East or in the West, are also dictatorial. As a member of an association you have to share its standpoint, otherwise you do not belong. 

The trail was of washed, white sand, inches deep in places and soft and inviting. We had walked hardly a quarter of a mile when lust overtook our interest in lepidoptera. Adding to our thrill was the risk of discovery by Witoto trail users. We tossed caution to the winds and were soon lost in each other. Pleasant it was in that verdant setting to part and defile the shaggy, slippery riches of Ev s sex. I thought of it as "Doing it for Vladimir." Verdant lust and butterflies were always entwined in Nabokov s enviable mind. 

Vladimir Nabokov included Tolstoy in his seminar on modernism held at Cornell University. Anna Karenina goes under a train. 

From Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol (Norfolk, Conn. New Directions, 1944). PP- 63-78. 

The Criticism section is unusually wide-ranging. It begins with Robert Maguire s general overview of Gogol s criticism includes two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals continues with Donald Fan-ger s brilliant essay and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion and features, as well, essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. The Russian essays have been especially translated for this Norton Critical Edition. 

The selection of Western criticism aims at making available examples of the best of comments and analyses, as well as presenting a cross section of the different approaches taken to Dead Souls. Some are by well-known critics and writers (Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson) others, by specialists and scholars. 

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