| 单词 | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 例句 | Fleeing the Nazi conquest of Europe, the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his family took a ship to the United States in the spring of 1940. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The book is Lolita word for word, and I'm allowed to write it because, under the conditions of the fantasy, Vladimir Nabokov never existed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov never won a Nobel Vladimir Nabokov never won an Prize. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Nabokov’s lecture on Jane Austen documented in “Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature,” edited by Fredson Bowers. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Writers able to choose their working languages—Joseph Conrad, Jorie Graham, Vladimir Nabokov—often end up writing in English, because, as Conrad reportedly put it, “English is so plastic.” Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The first provided an amplified piano solo played by Vicki Ray that took its inspiration from Vladimir Nabokov. Want to hear the real La La Land? Lend an ear to the L.A. composers of the Hear Now festival 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The verse and short stories of “the divine Edgar” — as Humbert Humbert calls him in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita — have inspired more movies than the works of any writer but Shakespeare. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z Vladimir Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945, but returned to Europe in 1961 after the great success of "Lolita," settling in Switzerland. Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z “Bend Sinister,” Vladimir Nabokov’s sinuous novel that shares both a title and verve with the Fall’s exceptionally twisty 1986 album, has a passage that gets at this a little closer to the bone. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It nods to the way that young girls — the nymphets in the Vladimir Nabokov work that inspired Ms. Dass’s title — are treated as passive objects of male desire. Two Projects Helping Female Artists in Africa Find Their Voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In “Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years,” the scholar Brian Boyd cites an episode where a young Nabokov was assigned a school essay on the topic of laziness and turned in a blank sheet of paper. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z He’s also working on a memoir, titled “Seek, Memory,” in a nod to Vladimir Nabokov, that exhumes memories he has repressed for most of his adult life. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Like Vladimir Nabokov, whose memoir "Speak, Memory," begins with equating life as a candle flicker between two abysses of darkness, Eco writes in his new novel of life as a song. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z In “Conclusive Evidence,” Vladimir Nabokov reviews his own memoir, “Speak, Memory,” and recalls his early years writing for The New Yorker. Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z But perhaps this explains the bequest: Finch knew her student to be incapable of pulling a maneuver like that of Charles Kinbote, the deranged exegete in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire.” In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z When Kubrick later made his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Stern's shot of the film's young star, Sue Lyon, sporting red heart-shaped glasses and sucking a lollipop, was used for the poster. Bert Stern 2013-06-30T15:44:49Z As an antidote, I prescribe “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov. I am named in a terrible book 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z Mr. Amis’s literary heroes — he called them his “Twin Peaks” — were Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow, and critics located in his work both Nabokov’s gift for wordplay and gamesmanship and Bellow’s exuberance and brio. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Putnam’s Sons, Minton also published works by Norman Mailer and Terry Southern among others and signed up Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous novel from the 1950s. Walter Minton, US publisher of ‘Lolita,‘ dies at 96 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z He was "trying to build an identity for himself" — the man of wealth and sophistication, the man with a library full of beautiful first editions by authors like Thomas Hardy and Vladimir Nabokov. Thief stole rare books for love, says author 2010-10-01T19:38:00Z Questions concerning art hang over everything no matter which direction you’re reading, including a veiled reference to Vladimir Nabokov, who was always fascinated with aesthetics. Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov was an ardent keeper in his youth, and in his 1950 essay Speak, Memory, he wrote: "I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret". Footballing authors: who will defend Frank Lampard? 2013-02-15T15:27:16Z A solution was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov — whose writing fixated Benjamin as he composed “Picture” — and his mosaic-like approach. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Consider an example from recent literature: I find Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” funny, complex, beautifully written, endlessly rereadable. Review | What ‘Henry Huggins’ and ‘Lolita’ can teach us about extremism — and civil discourse 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Albee’s other plays include adaptations of the Carson McCullers novella “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”; of “Malcolm,” a novel by James Purdy, and of Vladimir Nabokov’s great novel of sexual obsession, “Lolita.” Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Robert Roper isn’t a specialist in the study of Vladimir Nabokov or his fiction. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov said, in Pnin, that Salvador Dalì "is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood". Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at age 93. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Neon nymphets On the transcontinental car journey that he re-imagines in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, a serious lepidopterist, records that he 'caught some very good moths at the neon lights of a gas station' in Texas. Illuminating the elements - in pictures 2011-02-10T13:43:06Z Mary Karr, the poet and memoirist, said “Where the Past Begins” gave her new insight into Ms. Tan’s evolution as a writer, and compared it to “Speak, Memory,” Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z He refers to Wittgenstein on history and in his usurpation of facts and stories resembles Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire.” A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Gwinnett County, Ga., carries about a million books in its system, including the steamy passages from Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and Vladimir Nabokov's provocative "Lolita." 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.” Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov asserted, not entirely playfully, that “reality” is a word that should only ever have quotation marks around it. ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z I crawled through all five volumes of Michael Reynolds’ biography of Hemingway and both volumes of Brian Boyd’s magnificent biography of Vladimir Nabokov. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z He likes “Pale Fire,” by Vladimir Nabokov, in part because it is set where we live, but he is not otherwise interested in literary games or a distinctive style. Books for Left-Brained Readers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 masterpiece “Lolita” — a staple of the American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Books list — has only grown more infamous with age. Review | Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Sue Lyon, who at age 14 played the title character in the 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita, has died at age 73. Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita, dies aged 73 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy’s prose “so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon.” ArtsBeat: A Book Critic At the Ballet 2011-07-14T20:22:03Z She studied literature at the University of Chicago, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1961, a master’s degree in 1963 and a doctorate in 1966, writing her dissertation on the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Novelist, Dies at 71 2011-08-31T04:27:07Z In 1957 she earned a bachelor’s in English from Cornell, where she studied with Vladimir Nabokov. Joanna Russ, Who Drew Women to Sci-Fi, Dies at 74 2011-05-08T07:23:01Z American writers have cooked up all kinds of metaphors for the United States, but it took the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov to imagine it as a seductive teenage Lady Liberty in hot pants. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z At Hazlitt, Sarah Weinman unearths the now forgotten abduction case that helped to inspire Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” Weekend Reading: The Real Humbert Humbert, Origins of “The Sexiest Man Alive,” and More 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z His 1964 Playboy interview with the Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov was considered one of the magazine’s best. Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The Vladimir Nabokov novel is widely considered a masterpiece, and when I was assigned to read it during a writing class, I looked forward to finally understanding what all the fuss was about. Stunning, bloody “Hannibal” challenges our senses of beauty and revulsion 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In “The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov,” Andrea Pitzer suggests that such pronouncements were merely part of Nabokov’s public façade — “the genteel, charming cosmopolitan, incapable of being dented or diminished by history.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z The novelist Vladimir Nabokov once mocked professors, and, by extension, other critical types, who approached art works with the question: “What is the guy trying to say?” ‘Little Joe’ Review: This Flower Can Dispense Joy, but It Has Demands 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Larkin’s directives to destroy unpublished manuscripts were overridden by heirs and executors, who not only preserved but published them. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov would certainly have sooner spent time with a lepidopterist than with a novelist heavy with prizes. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z Vladimir Nabokov fled Russia and later Germany, arriving in America in 1939 and staying there for 20 years. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z Stanislas de Quercize, the company’s chief executive, also referred to the underlying sensuality, epitomized by the author Vladimir Nabokov and his dual fascination with butterflies and young girls. 2010-02-03T04:30:00Z “Think, Write, Speak,” a new collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s nonfiction, arrived this year. Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Like Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita, much of which is a road narrative, Gaiman charts the peculiarities of small-town USA with a foreigner's relish and curiosity. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-26T21:55:09Z French rather than German was always spoken at home, English being the future writer’s third language, as it was for Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov. Review | ‘Sybille Bedford’ is a gossipy appreciation of an oft-overlooked literary great 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov found it less compelling, describing it as “a dreary town.” Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It has called for tighter controls on the content of television broadcasts and for the banning of books such as Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita." Russian punk rockers in jail for anti-Putin prayer 2012-03-14T12:21:16Z Vladimir Nabokov left instructions that fragments of a manuscript be destroyed. Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, who found Dostoyevsky “mediocre,” explored similar themes of moral quandary and mental anguish in his polarizing landmark work, “Lolita.” Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z That might explain why the lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov is in goal for the Russian team. A World Cup for writers in the 'Penguin Cup' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z My listlessness ended after I pulled Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography Speak, Memory from my bookshelf, more or less at random. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Lolita, on the first page of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Review Christmas quiz 2012: the answers 2012-12-21T22:55:11Z Mr. McClatchy blends in shreds of anecdote and memoir, such as an account of his first meeting with the poet James Merrill, or recalling the letters he sent to Vladimir Nabokov while in high school. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z "Pale Fire" was not about fire but a play on Vladimir Nabokov's novel of deconstructed poetry transferred to a postmodern realm in which Shostakovich had some connection. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Now, there is also the solitary “aesthetic bliss” as Vladimir Nabokov called it, and this is a rare and wondrous human experience that may indeed be impeded by psych drugs, or by symptoms of depression. Psych meds dull my creativity 2013-02-26T01:00:00Z Topics: LA Review of Books, Vladimir Nabokov, , Theater, , , This article originally appeared on the L.A. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z I think Vladimir Nabokov wrote somewhere that we all have children buried alive inside us, and, as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Ken Loach have recently highlighted, superheroes can be great fun. A Superhero-Book Trailer for “Rusty Brown” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z When Vladimir Nabokov first moved to the U.S. in 1940, he was an unknown; “Lolita” was still 15 years away. Books: Food and the stories we tell, plus glam rock and YA in the age of Trump 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov was a big fan — and critic — of "The Metamorphosis" 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is not only one of the midcentury masters of prose but also, arguably, our greatest literary cartographer. When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a circus performer juggle torches for hours. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Much of the book is dedicated to Ginsburg’s influences — from Eleanor Roosevelt to the soap opera character Helen Trent and the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell. Charlotte Brontë and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Before the World Knew Them 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z At the core of the library’s collections is the written word, represented by items from those cuneiform tablets to modern manuscripts by Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe and others. A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z At the age of thirty-one, living as a penniless exile in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov composed, in Russian, a novel called “Camera Obscura,” which he published serially in an émigré journal in 1930. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Finally, “The Russian Professor” collects a series of heartfelt letters written by Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, Véra, during a 1942 lecture tour that brought him to Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, and other places. Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Past contributors include the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, and the celebrated multidisciplinary writer Norman Mailer. After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He left Doubleday in part out of dismay that it had refused, on grounds of taste, to publish “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel about a middle-aged man’s obsession and affair with a very young girl. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z While at Wellesley, she struck up a friendship with Vladimir Nabokov, who was teaching Russian there. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z One of literature’s most striking descriptions of the creative process can be found in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Pale Fire.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z "I'm not sure that we can answer that until they are dead ... although when he was alive Vladimir Nabokov was one of them." The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z In a 1967 interview with the Paris Review, Vladimir Nabokov, when asked whether he considered himself an American, responded: "I'm as American as April in Arizona." What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z He recommended Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita – banned at that time – as his book of the year in the Sunday Times and praised the men involved in the great train robbery. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Last month Vladimir Nabokov's son put out The Original of Laura , despite the fact that his dad had decreed he never want-ed the unfinished work to be published. 2009-12-03T17:21:00Z In the music video, Wood wears a pair of heart shaped sunglasses that resemble the shades worn by Vladimir Nabokov's titular character, Lolita, in the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of the same name. Evan Rachel Wood alleges Marilyn Manson raped her on camera: "No one was looking after me" 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov was not declared ethically deficient, or his filigreed sentences examined for intellectual rot, after he congratulated Lyndon Johnson for his "admirable work" in Vietnam. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z James Joyce’s “Ulysses” was a milestone, as was Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z We read with our minds, Vladimir Nabokov said in his lecture praising Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House,” but “the seat of artistic delight is between our shoulder blades.” Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In “Christmas,” a short story from 1975, Vladimir Nabokov writes about a father’s grief over his son’s death and a discovery he makes while packing up his belongings. Holiday Classics from the Archive 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov wrecked what might have been my youthful debut on the literary scene. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “It is a short walk,” Vladimir Nabokov said, speaking of writers and critics, “from the hallelujah to the hoot.” Books of The Times: Sing It Loud: Changing the World With a Song 2011-04-28T16:23:27Z Vladimir Nabokov even referred to one of her paintings in “Lolita.” Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Vladimir Nabokov were all published after their deaths. Anticipation is high for Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman.' Will it live up to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z When Vladimir Nabokov wrote in “Lolita” that “you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style,” he was not predicting the arrival of the serial killer and necrophile Ted Bundy. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z To this day, for example, I will read just about anything by or about Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges. Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’ Does the title of Vladimir Nabokov's infamous, acclaimed 1955 novel make you think of a girl, dressed perhaps in the manner of Britney, circa "...Baby One More Time"? Do you picture a coy seductress? Sally Horner was “The Real Lolita”: The 1948 crime that inspired Nabokov 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z One was Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel “Lolita,” which was vetoed by Ms. Mantell. Marianne Mantell, who helped launch the audiobook industry, dies at 93 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z “Only in fairy tales do people escape from prison,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov in his novel “Invitation to a Beheading.” Review | A tale of WWII derring-do that reveals the humanity of its heroes 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Her fortunes changed in 1963 when she found an image of a nymphet by Balthus to accompany a review of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Lolita.” Grace Glueck, 96, Dies; Arts Writer Fought for Equality at The Times 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Bank was a Philadelphia native with a master’s degree from Cornell University whose influences ranged from Vladimir Nabokov to Grace Paley. Melissa Bank, witty, bestselling author, dies at 61 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Over the years I’ve certainly returned several times to a handful of writers, most prominently those twin monsters, Evelyn Waugh and Vladimir Nabokov, but in general I’ve never counted on rereading anything. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z As a fiction editor, a position his mother, Katharine Sergeant White, held at the magazine for more than 35 years, Angell worked with writers as diverse as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and Woody Allen. Roger Angell, admired for his eloquent essays on baseball, has died 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Among the most famous were painters like Marc Chagall and Vasily Kandinsky, as well as the writers Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Anti-Putin Russians Are Leaving, With a Push From the Kremlin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Epstein had brought Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov to Doubleday, but he left the firm when it rejected Nabokov’s controversial novel “Lolita,” about an older man’s obsession with a preteen girl. Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at 93. Jason Epstein, publishing innovator who put the classics in paperback, dies 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The book’s chief pleasure is the experience of a veteran novelist going deep on another fiction writer, much as Vladimir Nabokov did in his lectures on Dickens and Austen. Review: Why is Paul Auster so obsessed with Stephen Crane? Find out in 800 pages 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z God forbid they should try to muddle through a sentence by Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy or, my high school favorite, William Faulkner. Opinion | Don’t cancel Shakespeare 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that a major influence on her intellectual development was taking Vladimir Nabokov’s class on European literature at Cornell University. Thrilling little machines: George Saunders analyzes Russian short fiction 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z I was aware of Vladimir Nabokov’s distain for “Crime and Punishment” and Anton Chekhov’s impatience with Dostoevsky‘s “long-winded” and “indelicate” prose. Commentary: Times are bad, so keep your uplift. Give me 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Godfather' 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z She sometimes said she was inspired to pay attention to writing by studying literature under Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s feminist icon, is dead at 87 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z At 14, she read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita – it’s the first book that Strane gives to Vanessa – and was electrified by it. Is My Dark Vanessa the most controversial novel of the year? Author Kate Elizabeth Russell speaks out 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z They work to improve their language skills — reading, writing, speaking, comprehension — with spirited discussions of challenging books such as Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy,” and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” A place where reading is the cure 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The US actress, who was 14 when she starred in the screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. Lolita star Sue Lyon dies aged 73 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z At 14 years old, Lyon landed her first major role as the titular character in "Lolita," Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel. Sue Lyon, star of 'Lolita,' dead at 73 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Lyon was reportedly chosen from some 800 girls who sought the role of “Lolita” for the film based on Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel about a middle-aged literature professor’s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl. Sue Lyon, actress who at 14 played Kubrick’s ‘Lolita,’ dies 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Putnam’s Sons released works by Norman Mailer and Terry Southern, among others, and signed up Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous “Lolita.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, who knew better, regularly tried to disabuse Wilson of this belief. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Bukovsky’s plight attracted the attention and condemnation of intellectual figures including Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as Amnesty International and members of the U.S. Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet dissenter who revealed abuses of communist system, dies at 76 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In a remarkable case of literary detective, Weinman conducted an investigation into the 1948 case that she says inspired Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel “Lolita.” Six paperbacks perfect for fall, from a history of the heart to ‘The Real Lolita’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z He credits this period, during which he rendered Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov and others into Spanish, as crucial in his artistic development. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z I have a deep urge to refer you to Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire,” when he talks about the strange way in which a misprint can connect a true world and a false world. A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z While “Confessions” drew praise for its wit and sparkling prose, which The Washington Post likened to that of Vladimir Nabokov, its handling of sexual violence garnered rebukes from feminist critics. George Stade, pop-minded literary scholar and satirical novelist, dies at 85 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The Library of Congress classification system places Jhabvala alongside Indian-origin writers in English, but as a Continental European writing in English she could just as well have been shelved with Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, for example, likened insomnia to a “sunburst” – its blast of light standing as a symbol for inner illumination. Can a sleepless night awaken creativity? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z They suggest that the reader of Oscar Wilde and Vladimir Nabokov be reprogrammed at the center, where the Bible is the only good book. Review | If you still haven’t heard of Lucas Hedges, you will after ‘Boy Erased’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Bader went to Cornell, where she liked to say that she learned how to write from Vladimir Nabokov. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Unlikely Path to the Supreme Court 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “Night is always a giant,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov, of the foreboding sense of peril he felt on entering his bedroom. Finally, a cure for insomnia? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z These are some of the myriad questions evoked by Sarah Weinman’s riveting account of the 1940s true crime that in part inspired Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Except it doesn’t, because no English word can accurately reflect all the shades of the word, to paraphrase Vladimir Nabokov. 10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English) 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The message sent to a cousin and literary matchmaker, Vladimir Nabokov, to find the Baron a wife. A Seat Near Hitler and Other Olympic Tales from the Baron, 105 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z L’Inconnue became a muse for artists, poets and other writers, among them Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Rainer Maria Rilke and Vladimir Nabokov. At a family workshop near Paris, the ‘drowned Mona Lisa’ death mask lives on 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The mask was mass-produced and sold as a decorative item for years, becoming a muse for writers and artists, including Pablo Picasso, Vladimir Nabokov and Albert Camus. Senate, O.J. Simpson, Linkin Park: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z At last, you felt, someone at Marvel was starting to heed the wise words of Vladimir Nabokov: “The difference between the comic side of things, and their cosmic side, depends upon one sibilant.” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” Loses the Fizz of the Original 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov’s recipe for soft-boiled eggs is a gem of a prose-poem. The greatness — and the mystery — of eggs 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Hamilton declared he was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial classic Lolita, saying he shared the writers’s “obsession with purity” and that his work looked for “the candour of a lost paradise”. David Hamilton found dead amid allegations of historical rape 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Matar’s evocative writing and his early traumas call to mind Vladimir Nabokov, whose keen ability to depict loss helped him forge a literary presence in a new language and land. A son’s contemplative search for his father long missing in Gaddafi’s Libya 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His 1964 Playboy interview with Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov was considered one of the magazine’s best. Alvin Toffler, author of ‘Future Shock,’ dies at 87 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In terms of her own reading habits, she said her current favourite novelists were Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote and JD Salinger. Lily Cole challenges MPs on illiteracy - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z If that claim has you bellowing names like Vladimir Nabokov or Margaret Atwood at your screen, that might be because the culture that has raised Lee up to such grand status is not yours. Stan Lee: the greatest storyteller in history? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Jagger’s next mooted acting project, a role as the demonic Axel Rex in a film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in The Dark, scheduled for 1986, never materialised. Gimme celluloid: a history of Mick Jagger on film 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Véra and Vladimir Nabokov were married for fifty-two years—a record, apparently, among literary couples—and their intimacy was nearly hermetic. Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z He graduated from Columbia University in 1975 with a master’s degree in comparative literature; he wrote his thesis on Vladimir Nabokov. Phil Patton, Scrutinizer of the Mundane, Is Dead at 63 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z I remembered that James Salter, who was fond of Switzerland and its hotels, went to interview Vladimir Nabokov in 1975. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z His cousin, Vladimir Nabokov, a lepidopterist and the author of Lolita, was one of the 20th century’s most controversial novelists. Why Casinos Are a Godsend For Native Americans 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z ‘Satire,’ wrote Vladimir Nabokov, ‘is a lesson, parody is a game.’ How Jon Stewart Became The Most Important American In Britain 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z One of her early assignments was to cast another student’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s short story “The Potato Elf.” Allison Jones, Nerd Hunter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z So she spent 16 years creating a world of her own, fashioned with a restless imagination whose whimsy and faux-scholarship recall the Vladimir Nabokov of Pale Fire. Author Hanya Yanagihara's Not-So-Little Life 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z One of my favorite books about the U.S. is Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” which among many other things is also a kind of road novel. Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through America 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Then again, Vladimir Nabokov wrote standing up, and I wouldn’t call “Lolita” brief. Stand down. As Vladimir Nabokov once said, “Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.” Satire is dying – the internet is killing it 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The CIA's Doctor Zhivago project was part of wider effort by the agency to get forbidden novels into Eastern bloc countries, including books by George Orwell, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov and Ernest Hemingway. How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, on the other hand, cared less about time and more about method. Can what you do *before* you write improve your actual writing? 2013-08-13T01:45:00.797Z Vladimir Nabokov was another writer who preferred to stand. Stand up at office 'to lose fat' 2013-01-09T01:27:57Z He later lobbied for legislation to ban Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel Lolita, and suggested that all Russian intellectuals should be condemned for the “sin of Russophobia.” The Orthodox Priest Who Beat Pussy Riot 2012-08-20T13:50:22Z Personally, I would ten thousand times rather read a book written by Vladimir Nabokov than by a vapid genre hack. Room for magic: A conversation with Lyndsay Faye 2012-06-28T13:45:00.213Z So if you inhabit the Big Apple, enrich your life by doing what the Russian novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov would do, and head out to the coast or one of the city’s parks. Monarchs flood New York City 2011-10-10T20:15:08.197Z Cowen suggested Vladimir Nabokov and Ayn Rand and linked to a two-year-old list of fiction in the Wall Street Journal. Tyler Cowen, America's Hottest Economist 2011-05-26T21:00:03Z He graduated from the Horace Mann School at 16 and attended Cornell, where he took a class taught by Vladimir Nabokov. Ira Cohen, an Artist and a Touchstone, Dies at 76 2011-05-02T03:56:15Z Correction: January 26, 2011 An earlier version of this article misstated the year Vladimir Nabokov immigrated to the United States. Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated 2011-01-26T17:41:25Z Vladimir Nabokov may be known to most people as the author of classic novels like “Lolita” and “Pale Fire.” Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated 2011-01-26T00:24:15Z The first issue of the magazine included photos of Marilyn Monroe, and authors such as Vladimir Nabokov were published in 's pages. Hef Wants Playboy, and He's Not Alone 2010-07-15T13:30:00Z Vladimir Nabokov mentioned him in his novel “Ada” as “an invented philosopher.” Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, Dies at 95 2010-05-24T01:55:00Z There was the one about Harry, the main character from Lolita, one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels. Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult |
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