| 单词 | 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 Many if not most tlamatinime saw existence as Nabokov feared: “a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A whale looks like a big fish; Obama has been the subject of rumors about his religion; Nabokov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that many critics thought he deserved. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Although Nabokov was the scion of a Russian noble family, he detested the class-bound servility ubiquitous in the land of his birth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As Nabokov elsewhere declares in “Think, Write, Speak”: “All writers that are worth anything are humorists.” Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z "There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered," Nabokov said. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Shade is a writer, a surrogate for Nabokov, and he is also a ghost, a memory dining on shadows—the glitter and impermanence of ice. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Nabokov was notorious for never showing early drafts of his work to journalists or scholars. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 The Nabokovs entertained no friends, never went to the movies, tipped everyone well, and rarely left town. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Still, Roper doesn’t fully answer the question of why Nabokov wrote so often about “nymphets.” ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z And when Ruth Graham argues that reading is about “so much more” than feeling empathy—taking pleasure in “astonishing sentences,” for example—it’s hard not to hear Nabokov in the background. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z He delved into the literary canon revered by angry young men everywhere: Nabokov, Eliot, Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Benjamin Scheuer and a life told in heartbreaking song at the Geffen 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z In seeking to illuminate Nabokov’s metamorphosis into an American writer, Roper also looks at how other creative Europeans such as filmmaker Billy Wilder managed this transition. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z I’m a decent fake rifleman, but to paraphrase Nabokov, who would have loved “Big Buck Hunter,” I can’t stand in the shadow of a master’s shadow. Big Buck Hunter: Meet the world’s best fake marksmen 2012-11-25T16:00:00Z “It was quite a jolt,” Ms. Nabokov said in a telephone interview. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s been fun, while reading Amis’s nonfiction over the years, to track the TTN — the time to Nabokov — of his individual books. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, no one will ever die,” Nabokov once wrote. The High Line Opens Its Third and Final Phase 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Monroe may not be exactly the light of Minnie’s life, but for much of the story, he is the fire of her loins, to borrow and bend some opening words from Nabokov’s “Lolita.” Review: In ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ a Hormone Bomb Waiting to Explode 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z 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 As a young writer, he also translated Nabokov, Conrad, Sterne, and Faulkner into Spanish. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z 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 Nymphetmania has a long and hoary pedigree in Hollywood, and flourished years before Nabokov gave us the Lolita syndrome. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z In that room, at that moment, it seemed not about religion but, as Nabokov said of “Lolita,” about culture, about language—about our longing to remain somehow connected to Russia, to Russian, despite everything. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z In Freud's rhetorical ploys, he's always pitting himself against creative writers, which is why Nabokov and Virginia Woolf, for instance, took the bait and bristled accordingly. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z “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 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 Nabokov was a happily married man who admired and adored his wife, Véra, and lived an exemplary life as an academic and author. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Interestingly, Nabokov was indecisive about how old the novel’s girl should be. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 “The only characteristic Nabokov trait that one recognizes in this uneven and sometimes banal translation,” Wilson opined in his infamous hatchet job, “is the addiction to rare and unfamiliar words.” When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It's easy to see why a keen observer of human nature like Nabokov would have been drawn to such a heartbreaking story as Horner's. Sally Horner was “The Real Lolita”: The 1948 crime that inspired Nabokov 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z 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 He told the jury he had created a series based on Nabokov's character Lolita and had worked with Blake on a project around Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Artist Graham Ovenden denies abusing young models 2013-03-21T18:26:00Z In his voluminous “Lectures” Nabokov is idiosyncratic and often verbally intense, but he is always a sober and serious professional: a pedagogue. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z 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 Nabokov remained married to the same woman throughout his life but was also unfaithful. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Think Tristram Shandy , or Nabokov’s Pale Fire , or – later, much later – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest : these kinds of works rely on footnotes to move the reader in a nonlinear fashion through the text. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z As an antidote, I prescribe “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov. I am named in a terrible book 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z I’ve heard that when Nabokov was invited to Germany after World War II, he said, “I won’t go because I don’t want to accidentally shake hands with a murderer.” The Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Nabokov used some of this material as the basis for "Lolita." After "Queen’s Gambit," Anya Taylor-Joy and Scott Frank reuniting for Nabokov adaptation 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Written in Russian, the novel was translated into English by Nabokov himself after he deemed a previous effort by Winifred Roy lacking. Classics corner: Laughter in the Dark 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z In one chapter, she lists and extols her favorite Nabokov words, among them concolorous, fritillary, and purl. 'The Enchanter:' why Nabokov matters 2011-06-29T23:02:04Z Gessen is a writer of spare sentences; he’s more of a Chekhov than a Nabokov. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z 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 His Pozdynyshev has the disintegrating air of distinction you associate with debauched Nabokov heroes, of a man held together by wit and pain. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z One, for example, says “starring Nabokov, Hippocrates and God.” Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z 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 They were unlikely prophets locked in telepathic mind-meld, their images periodically warping on the surface of the mirror, a sonic parallel to the shifty dual-identity deceptions of Italo Calvino or Nabokov. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet already in “Morn,” Nabokov is working on how to artistically transfigure historical material to create a new universe of fiction. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z 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 Nabokov was no stranger to the political atrocities of the 20th century. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z Nabokov’s finest work celebrates what his character Humbert Humbert calls “the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country” that he and Lolita see by car. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z 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 But he isn't in the same category as Nabokov, whose greatness increases with time. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Banville concedes the similarity, but maintains that there is a fundamental distinction between himself and Nabokov. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z 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 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 But/and, I also use the line in the book that was a guiding principle throughout—Nabokov’s line that “memory is a revision.” “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z When Nabokov was trying to find someone to replace him when he left Cornell, shortly after the publication of “Lolita,” it was she who came up with a successful recommendation, the novelist Herbert Gold. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The original of this novel has sold in its hundreds of thousands in the Netherlands, while an Italian critic has compared Abdolah, in his mastery of an alien literary language, to Nabokov and Conrad. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z 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 Truth be told, there's not that much at stake for Jackson, Nabokov, Williams, or even Crichton. 2009-12-03T17:21:00Z He is not what we fear, but not quite what he would like to think he is, either, and the parallels with Nabokov are more lyrical than the signposts of foreigner, road-trip and kidnap. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z I don’t wish to overpraise it: it has soft spots; it frequently deals with material covered in better books; you will not confuse the author’s modest prose with Nabokov’s. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z The question obviously raised Nabokov's blood pressure, too. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z 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 But trying to force Nabokov’s exquisitely controlled satire of bourgeois materialism and conventionality into a slapstick would-be youth comedy was a grave error. Nabokov and the Movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Florence Green in her little bookshop understood it, my dad knew it, Nabokov did, and really anyone who is a reader knows it, too. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Did Nabokov come up with these lines in his original Russian version, which he hastily scribbled in six months? How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 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 She looked about the age of Nabokov’s heroine—the doll girl of another era. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And for writers experiencing self-doubt, remember that Nabokov’s first book was so maligned his teacher set aside class time to sarcastically quote it at length. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Speak, Memory collects magazine pieces originally written for Harper’s and The New Yorker, when Nabokov needed cash to supplement his meager teaching income. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Nabokov summarized a death in two words: “picnic, lightning.” Review: The Bold Voice of Rebecca Schiff, in 23 Stories 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z 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 And sentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered in life and art: individual genius. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Not content with attacking Nabokov, Bellow, Updike, Martin Amis and myself for "selective humanism", he states: "Of course, violence and exploitation underpin all nation states, democratic or not." Letters: Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships 2012-12-16T21:00:12Z Nabokov, at the time a penniless Russian exile in Berlin, admitted that he wrote the book with an eye toward a screen sale. Nabokov and the Movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z After the death of his mother in 1991, he sold the remainder of the Nabokov archive to the New York Public Library and attended conferences dedicated to his father. Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z She also read widely — Nabokov and Borges were her two favorite contemporary authors — and began to work on her first short stories, followed by a novel, the often brutal “Shadow Dance.” The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But that was a curated event, and Nabokov had already revised much of the draft copy. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z What sticks with me about this description is not Shade’s—or Nabokov’s—impressive artistry but all of the slippage and combination, which provokes, in my head, a vague uneasiness. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s just that, according to Nabokov, his and Gogol’s art deals with “something much more than that.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z Ms. Gallant earned numerous literary prizes, including the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2004. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z It’s impossible to retreat to any kind of moral high ground when you read “Lolita” — partly because Nabokov threads a strange emotional honesty and purity through his portrait of obsession. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z 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 And in a particularly astute summary, he talks of the complicitousness one finds in Nabokov’s books: ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z This is an unsophisticated criticism, and Weinman tries to disguise it, by making the act of novel-writing an actual crime, and Nabokov a villain who trapped a girl in a book. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Diaghilev, watching an “Apollo” rehearsal and turning to the composer Nicolas Nabokov, said of Balanchine: “What he is doing is magnificent. This is classicism, classicism such as we have not seen since Petipa.” Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z All in all, as Roper calculates, during his 20 years in America, Nabokov traveled upwards of 200,000 miles by car. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z I’d always been curious to know how extensively Nabokov revised “Camera Obscura” when turning it into “Laughter in the Dark.” How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It was easy to feel in on the joke, just as it was easy to share in the snobbery when Nabokov wrote, “Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.” Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Lathered up and not always believable, this first novel is the “General Hospital” version of Nabokov’s “Lolita” — and quite a bit of fun. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z That said, Roper nonetheless lingers, as he must, on the crucial years in Ithaca, N.Y., where between 1948 and 1960 Nabokov taught European literature and produced nearly all his greatest works: ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov was a big fan — and critic — of "The Metamorphosis" 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Selin could be any number of his gentle, ineffectual intellectuals, whose very gentleness and ineffectuality make them so important, according to Nabokov. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Nabokov was tone-deaf, and all his work is pictorial. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Weinman’s project feels least useful when she sidesteps these nuances to attack Nabokov’s intentions and assert that she has unlocked his creative secrets. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Nabokov disliked the Q. and A. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child,” he wrote. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z But Nabokov was soon introduced to one of America’s leading literary figures, the critic Edmund Wilson. Books: Food and the stories we tell, plus glam rock and YA in the age of Trump 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Roper’s efforts to show how Nabokov grappled with American literary traditions — and incorporated them into his work — is somewhat more uneven. Review: ‘Nabokov in America’ and Reaping Inspiration From Amber Waves 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z 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 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 Despite his reverence, Nabokov the wordsmith couldn't resist line editing Kafka's story — or the English version of it, anyway. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 Nabokov had an unsurpassed sense of a story’s structure, and the “Camera Obscura” revisions reveal his growing mastery, in the nineteen-thirties, of form, proportion, and pace. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 While Nabokov remains Amis’s godlike Jupiter, it’s the Saturn of Saul Bellow that emerges and dominates here. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Or Nabokov, who understood the obsessional nature of love and played so lovingly with perversity? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Nabokov once called editors “limpid creatures of limitless tact” whom he reveled in dismissing. With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z 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 She didn’t stumble until she hit the letter N. About Nabokov, she told a teacher, “He hates women.” Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z As one might expect the most salutary bits are Nabokov’s writings on nature. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z 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’ Though essentially biographical, “Nabokov in America” is also a work of criticism. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Writers die twice,” he observes in an essay on Nabokov. Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z In a letter to Edmund Wilson, Nabokov wrote: “I dislike Jane, and am prejudiced, in fact, against all women writers. They are in another class.” Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Nabokov called “Lolita” the “purest” of all his books. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Some novels by Nabokov’s pupils also come to mind. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Its formal experimentation and playfulness are regarded as precursors to the novels of Nabokov, Calvino and the American postmodernists. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z America, Mr. Roper suggests, liberated Nabokov and energized his imagination. Review: ‘Nabokov in America’ and Reaping Inspiration From Amber Waves 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Nabokov spoke of the shiver between the shoulder blades. ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z 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 And yet, as Borges also shows, such madness is the madness of art, like the brilliant, bonkers endeavour of Alfred Appel to annotate all of Nabokov's Lolita. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z The same might be said of Nabokov—for “Camera Obscura” shows that he was indeed capable of writing a second-rate novel. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Joyce suffered the same fate for a few decades, as did Borges and Nabokov. Patrick Modiano's Nobel in Literature: The Swedes Got It Right 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Amis posits that Nabokov’s prose started to lose velocity with the novel “Ada.” Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Nabokov dismissed Wilson’s analysis as “figments of his warped fancy.” Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Lecturing about Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat,” Nabokov would remark that the “solemn reader” takes for granted that Gogol’s prime intention was to “denounce the horrors of Russian bureaucracy.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z Still, as Roper says in the introduction to “ Nabokov in America ,” he has loved his subject’s sometimes controversial books for 50 years, “especially the ones written while he lived in the United States.” ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z 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 Sexual fetish can be the stuff of great art, as Nabokov's "Lolita," Edward Albee's "The Goat" or J.G. Review: 'The Cut' at Open Circle Theater delivers little pleasure with its close shaves 2011-01-20T23:40:05Z Oddly enough, my publishing misfortune spurred a fascination with Nabokov that continues to this day. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Lolita, on the first page of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Review Christmas quiz 2012: the answers 2012-12-21T22:55:11Z The inspiration for “Lolita” came to Nabokov from a newspaper article announcing that, for the first time, scientists had coaxed a monkey into drawing a picture. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The geobiologist Hope Jahren possesses the two attributes Nabokov deemed essential to the writer: “the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z 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 Another reason is that Nabokov perhaps felt little real affinity for the short story, which he called "a small Alpine form" of the novel. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z Nabokov says memory is an aesthetic experience like looking at a wonderful painting; you can sit in a chair and have a memory, just enjoy it. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z In the Roy version, Albinus guesses that she is “seventeen or eighteen”; in the Berg Collection copy, Nabokov crossed out that line and wrote “Eighteen.” How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z But where Nabokov is all high-plumed prose and remove, presiding at his lectern, Saunders is at your elbow, ladling praise — “my good-hearted trooper,” he addresses us. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z But I wanted to know precisely how Nabokov had “revamped” and “improved” the original, and why. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Nabokov is particularly good at capturing the humorist in Gogol, a writer often misinterpreted as a kind of Russian Dickens. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Nabokov likened “Remembrance of Things Past” to a treasure hunt, one in which time is the treasure and the past its hiding place. | 'Mysteries of Lisbon': A Portuguese Tale of Time, the Revealer 2011-08-04T22:17:21Z Not surprisingly, then, Nabokov periodically teases his interviewers. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Auden, Nabokov fearlessly professes such “strong opinions” — the title of the previous collection of his nonfiction — that he’s always immense fun to read. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z 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 Director Stanley Kubrick reportedly selected the young and inexperienced Lyon to play Lolita – a 12-year-old in Nabokov’s book who enters into a relationship with a middle-aged literature professor – from among 800 aspirants. Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita, dies aged 73 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z 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 These spasms of disbelief are so ecstatic that immediate rereading is the only cure — I get them from Nabokov and from her. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z 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 Both Borges and Nabokov, no less, cherished his work. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and EB White on another. Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z In his most famous and controversial novel, Nabokov took up the story of Humbert Humbert, a man obsessed with a young girl, his nymphet, Lolita. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born in Russia in 1899 to a wealthy family. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Nabokov’s remembrances granted reprieve from the new abnormal and – crucially – guidance on how to navigate it. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z In darker fiction, Charlotte is the love interest in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Lolita’s mother in Nabokov’s Lolita, which your parents will explain to you later. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z An idea would arrive fully formed in Nabokov’s head, but realizing it on paper would involve jumping around the structure of the piece. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “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 “Knowing about Sally Horner,” Weinman rightly says, “does not diminish ‘Lolita’s’ brilliance, or Nabokov’s audacious inventiveness, but it does augment the horror he also captured in the novel.” Review | Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z 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 The obvious solution would be to buy or borrow a copy of Roy’s translation and compare it to Nabokov’s, but that’s almost impossible to do. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 When greater presidential abuses provoked despair, I returned to Nabokov’s chapter on butterflies. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Or, as Nabokov would assert, Dolores is not the same thing as Lolita. Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie? 2011-07-28T09:06:39Z The case is referenced very briefly in “Lolita,” and it was only many years after the book came out that scholars realized how much Nabokov had borrowed from it. Weekend Reading: The Real Humbert Humbert, Origins of “The Sexiest Man Alive,” and More 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z 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 The younger Nabokov died Wednesday at a hospital in Vevey after a long illness, literary agent Andrew Wylie said Friday. Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z "In my own reading life, I've been pulled in first one direction, then the other," she writes in an essay comparing Nabokov and Barthes. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z 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 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 The one exception was his embryonic version of “Original of Laura,” which was left uncompleted after Nabokov’s death, and which he had instructed his widow, Vera, to destroy. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z A few years later, Nabokov wrote to Wilson, “You are one of the few people in the world whom I keenly miss when I do not see them.” When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z 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 Salinger, one of the few contemporary American writers Nabokov was known to admire. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z 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 Beam believes Wilson’s most egregious transgression was assuming he understood the forces that shaped Nabokov, a presumption Nabokov found repellent. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Many fiction writers, from Twain to Nabokov to Welty, have delivered memoirs that stand alongside their best work. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z Unlike in Nabokov's alphabet, my only white letter is O; milk in a pan, about to boil. Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Nabokov is the undisputed king of the charming, demented narrator. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z Contrariwise, I believe Mr. Nabokov is slyly exploiting the American emphasis on the attraction of youth and the importance devoted to the “teen-ager” in order to promote an unconscious identification with Humbert’s agonies. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Early on, he addresses himself, cautioning, "Nabokov said that memory is a revision. Maybe you revised a lot of this wrong. You are honestly not sure." In 'Liar: A Memoir' Rob Roberge wrestles with the consequences of sex, drugs, and punk rock 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z 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 During his first academic engagement in America at Stanford University, the position that helped secure his departure from Europe in 1940, Nabokov taught a summer course on drama. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z “Book of Numbers” also shares some literary DNA with classic stories by Poe, Nabokov and Dostoyevsky about doppelgängers and doubles, a theme that Mr. Cohen felt was ripe for reworking in the Internet age. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z A more pragmatic solution for skeptics is to administer Nabokov in modest doses, a page or two at a time, before working up to full chapters. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Nabokov told an interviewer in 1974, “I don’t even know who Mr. Watergate is.” Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z For more than half a century, Nabokov wrote to his wife about his books, his meals and his observations, in exquisite and evocative detail. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z 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 Nabokov was exasperated by Wilson’s fondness for Lenin and Russia, which Nabokov detested. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z 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 It also exonerates, to a degree, poor forgotten Winifred Roy, whose supposed ineptitude has long been the accepted reason for Nabokov’s rewrite. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 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 But an offhand remark that Nabokov was interested in quirks of punctuation such as the titular comma after "Go" licenses a final frame boasting that Eggers called the novel "a Nabokovian comic masterpiece". The week in books 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z His much talked-about first novel “Prague” — about young Americans in Europe — was filled with echoes of Nabokov and James. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z Nabokov recited the names of Tolstoy, Chekhov and other Russian writers, then asked, “But who still remembers the name of a single police chief or censor from St. Petersburg?” He fought a duel, fled Nazi Austria and became Britain’s leading publisher 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z 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 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 The knock-on effect is of fewer comics scrabbling together their life savings to risk it all on their heartfelt retelling of the life of Nabokov through puppets. Edinburgh comedy notebook: TV is making comedy better ? and worse 2011-08-26T14:38:24Z 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 Most unexpectedly, Roper devotes considerable attention to Dmitri Nabokov, who was — during the period when his father was writing “Lolita” — the same age as the doomed nymphet. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Nabokov was wrong; we never lose interest in the adolescent project of learning to live. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, as Thomas Karshan notes in his illuminating introduction, Nabokov would never write so explicitly about revolution and its ideology. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z After emerging from the cocoon, Nabokov writes, “the butterfly sees the world, the large and awful face of the gaping entomologist.” These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z 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 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 Some of the greatest works of contemporary fiction in English – Joyce's Ulysses, Nabokov's Lolita or Burroughs's Naked Lunch – were available in France when they were banned or considered unpublishable in Britain or the US. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z Nabokov moves this to the beginning and expands it into a long, strikingly visual paragraph about an animated Bruegel that sweeps the reader into the story. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He never musters a dense argument for Updike’s importance, which would require him to triangulate not just among Bellow and Roth and Mailer but among Proust and Hawthorne and Nabokov and Henry James. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Yes and no. Instead of merely recording history, Nabokov was deliberately transforming it through the prism of his art. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z How does Nabokov manage to make the prosaic act so luminous? Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z 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 The road trips Nabokov took all over America with his wife at the wheel, seeking butterflies, resulted in “Lolita,” a novel that is also incidentally a road trip. Paul Theroux’s Travel Wish List 2013-01-11T19:49:59Z Of all the Nabokov movies, this is the only one to rival Kubrick’s “Lolita,” and it is still in circulation, in libraries and on Amazon. Nabokov and the Movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “The clues are all there in his work,” Weinman declares, with satisfaction, having compared her exertions in Nabokov’s archives to “coming up against an electrified fence designed to keep me away from the truth.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 Boyd’s emotional openness to the hidden complexities and contradictions buried within all of us, including himself, set the template for his probing analysis of Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z 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 Karr is such fun to read—who else would combine the name Nabokov and the phrase “out the wazoo” on her very first page?—that it’s hard to resist getting drawn into it again. What We’re Reading This Fall 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z As with Nabokov’s language, there is enormous pleasure to be had in the physical stuff of the work, its almost inexhaustible beauty. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Rejecting all attempts to find messages or social commentary in his work, Nabokov insists that his carefully constructed fiction simply aims to elicit aesthetic bliss. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z 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 Zanganeh calls Nabokov "the great writer of happiness" despite the fact that many of his characters don't seem happy. 'The Enchanter:' why Nabokov matters 2011-06-29T23:02:04Z Weinman takes pains to address the virtual lack of empathy with Sally in the critical coverage of Nabokov’s fiction, noting that Vera Nabokov was concerned about this in the wake of the success of “Lolita.” Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z 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 After her casting, Nabokov described Lyon as the “perfect nymphet”. Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita, dies aged 73 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 An example: Gary Shteyngart's 2010 novel Super Sad Love Story is full of the kind of nimble prose Nabokov would be proud of. Has plot driven out other kinds of story? 2011-07-14T14:49:52Z But Nabokov claimed that Roy’s translation was “sloppy” and “full of blunders” and, when approached by a publisher about an American edition in 1938, he chose to retranslate the novel himself. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z When I think of Corot’s women, I think of Nabokov’s description of Chekhov’s books as “sad books for humorous people.” Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Or do they just count as old friends, the rows of Nabokovs and Thomas Manns, standing protectively around you on permanent guard? My book cull 2010-11-24T09:29:00Z If a ticket to the ball puts me in the company of Bellow, Nabokov and, yes K and M Amis, charge my card. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Although Pitzer doesn’t discuss “Morn,” all the elements that interest her in Nabokov are already present in this early drama: violence, dictatorships, and mentions of forced labor camps. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z Nabokov dreamed of perfecting his research by “straddling a Wellsian time machine.” Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Advertisement At that gathering, Nabokov himself listed famed Russian authors, asking who did not know the name of such giants as Tolstoy and Chekhov. George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z 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 The fact that Nabokov was writing about Shakespeare here should feel at least a little darkly endearing. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z They were nearly contemporaries — Nabokov was born in 1899, Lawrence in 1885 — but Lawrence died at 45 from tuberculosis and they seem to belong to vastly different eras. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z 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 Nabokov, arguably a more pervasive influence, is a more complicated case. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Epstein had published Nabokov’s writing in his quarterly The Anchor Review. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Besides being a deliciously sardonic tale of reversals and comeuppance, “Ezra Slef” pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien and numerous other tricksy writers. Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z "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 Wilson commissioned some reviews from Nabokov for the New Republic. When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Nabokov seemed also to have had the movies in mind when he dreamed up “King, Queen, Knave,” his second novel, first published, in Russian, in 1928. Nabokov and the Movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z 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 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 Then I entered my months of Gogol, in Bulgakov’s honor, which led me to read Nabokov’s “Gogol,” which led me to another favorite book, “Nabokov’s Butterflies.” How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Weinman begins her book with the clue that, like Poe’s purloined letter, Nabokov planted in plain sight. Review | Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z If I accept the mightiness of Bellow and Nabokov, it’s partly because Amis persuaded me, both by the precepts of his criticism and the example of his fiction, which grapples with and overcomes their influence. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 Vladimir Nabokov left instructions that fragments of a manuscript be destroyed. Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Nabokov declared it "childish to read a novel to gain information". Summer voyages: Leo the African by Amin Maalouf 2013-07-19T12:57:30Z “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 Nabokov’s delight, and good luck, continued in this magical new land. Nabokov’s America 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z 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 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 A Brodsky museum would join dozens of other small apartments, flats and houses that perpetuate the memory of St Petersburg's cultural luminaries, including Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov and Rimsky-Korsakov. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z But Dmitri Nabokov always returned to protecting his father's literary legacy, translating and editing his father's plays, poems, stories, the novella "The Enchanter" and "Selected Letters." Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z 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 Today Nabokov’s early works, composed in his native Russian though later translated into English, tend to be respected rather than loved. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Zanganeh was an infant in 1977 when Nabokov died, but this doesn't stop her from encountering him in different phases of his life. 'The Enchanter:' why Nabokov matters 2011-06-29T23:02:04Z 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 Still, any sensitive reader will linger over the beautiful sentences with which Nabokov enriches even his most casual prose. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Nabokov wrote: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Nabokov blew me away for the same reasons; not quite as down to earth, but he has the same qualities of poetry and playfulness. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z In the foreword to “The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis,” published this month, the critic Michael Wood invokes Henry James, Henry Fielding, Chekhov, Sterne, Nabokov and Calvino — all in two paragraphs. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z 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 In the lecture titled “The Tragedy of Tragedy,” Nabokov reveals his aversion to the logical determinism that pervades much of playwriting. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z "On the one hand there is Barthes's radical invocation of reader's rights…on the other, Nabokov's bold assertion of authorial privilege." 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z 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 Today, the general public associates Nabokov not with the identity that he chose, but the one that more aptly fits our sense of who he was: a Russian writer. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z In his lectures to students, Nabokov insisted that novels contain story, lesson and magic, and that the great writer isn’t just a yarn-spinning entertainer or a moral educator but an enchanter. ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon,’ by Fatima Bhutto 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “The Real Lolita” is Sarah Weinman’s attempt to pull back the veil on the kidnapping that may have helped inspire Nabokov’s novel. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 He’s celebrated as a literary heir to giants like Turgenev, Gogol and Nabokov, but at times, he’s questioned the value of literature, dismissing novels as “just paper with typographic signs.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z 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 These delightful pieces end up transcending their constraints and become tales of pure information, occupying the rarified upper air where we also find Borges’s “Pierre Menard” and Nabokov’s “Pale Fire.” The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z “I do not believe that ‘history’ exists apart from the historian,” Nabokov said. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z 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 For those of us who admire Nabokov’s gifts, talking about “Lolita” can feel like being on a perpetual critical cartwheel of exaltation and apology: celebrating the novel’s artistry while decrying the corruption that artistry captures. Review | Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z "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 If only the Nabokov family had taken heed. When the novelist died in 1977, he left strict instructions that the book he was working on should be destroyed. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z The latter is taken from The Vane Sisters, one of the last stories Nabokov wrote before switching his production entirely to novels and poetry. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z Nabokov was a highbrow genre-changer, an originator of postmodern techniques: wordplay, stories constructed like puzzles, layers of allusion, tricks of misdirection. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z As Nabokov taught his students at Cornell, in reading one should always caress the details. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Brave is the author who invites comparison with Nabokov. Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa,’ and More 2013-07-24T19:27:43Z I have two responses to this: First of all, “repent at your leisure” is not exactly Nabokov or Joyce in complexity. On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Pitzer is particularly interested in tracing how Nabokov planted references to concentration camps in his art. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.” Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z I was reading Updike and Nabokov for the first time. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z Like Nabokov, Platonov, and many other great Russian prose writers, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The number, granting Charlotte a richness that she lacks on Nabokov’s page and in Shelley Winters’s performance in Kubrick’s film, gives real pathos to a character who is otherwise a pathetic figure of fun. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The book might provoke comparisons to Nabokov’s classic lectures on Russian literature, first delivered at Cornell. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Like going back to Nabokov’s “Mary” or Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise,” reading this warm-up offers clues to the writer Bolaño would become. New Books From Paul Theroux, Jeffrey Zaslow and Randall Silvis 2011-12-14T22:10:30Z Perhaps not as elegiac as Nabokov — but unlike Nabokov, he’s still here. Here’s Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He might have sprung fully formed from a novel by Nabokov or Thomas Mann. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Overall, there’s no doubt that “Think, Write, Speak” will chiefly appeal to the Nabokov completist. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z 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 On the other hand, you have Nabokov’s “Ada,” a massive, strenuously written novel, often beautiful but ultimately meretricious. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Nabokov's condescension to American academics displays itself, not only in the text of his foreword, but in the addition of Jr after his psychologist's name. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z In them, Amis writes about Austen, Nabokov, Updike and many others. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z 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 I would rank this fabulous book with the best of Nabokov, Bellow or Roth. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z There’s a call for themed snacks, and when the day arrives, members sip Lolita Lemondrops while chatting about Nabokov. At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Nabokov, though, while well-respected, did not seem beloved by the city he left as a young man. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z In what is essentially the tale of a sordid road trip, Nabokov has Humbert traveling the country in possession of his illicit love interest. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Little wonder that Nabokov was happier amid what he saw as the larger, freer expanses of the novel. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z To cope with wartime gasoline rationing, the college organized car pools for commuters, and she and Nabokov shared a car that took them to their homes in Cambridge. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Not many film or TV projects have successfully adapted Nabokov's voice, outside Stanley Kubrick's 1962 "Lolita," whose screenplay Nabokov himself wrote. After "Queen’s Gambit," Anya Taylor-Joy and Scott Frank reuniting for Nabokov adaptation 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Nabokov was an accomplished butterfly collector, well versed in scientific jargon, real and fake. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Nabokov thought so too, which is good enough for me. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Epstein published an early excerpt of Nabokov’s “Lolita” and fought unsuccessfully to convince Doubleday to publish the scandalous novel about a professor’s obsession with a 12-year old girl. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Nabokov’s prose style was cool; it induced little shivers; he delivered cut and polished gemstones. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A Letter that Never Reached Russia", Nabokov's exiled lover writes home, "At night one perceives with a special intensity the immobility of objects – the lamp, the furniture, the framed photographs on one's desk. Writing at night 2010-12-21T15:05:18Z And many fine writers – even those interested primarily in style and language, such as Joyce and Nabokov – are good psychologists. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Marías still remembers the house where they stayed in Massachusetts—Vladimir and Vera Nabokov had lived upstairs a few years earlier. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In 1962, the younger Nabokov began to race cars competitively and until 1982 he maintained an active professional operatic career as a basso profundo. Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z Wilson and Nabokov became close friends after Wilson found him work writing for the New Yorker and the New Republic, where Wilson was already embedded. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It turned out that our McGraw-Hill editor had paid a vast sum for Nabokov’s “Ada,” believing that this overlong, overwrought novel would repeat the success of “Lolita.” Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Nabokov, last century’s master finisher, perfected his every sentence on its separate note card. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z He has a wide range of reference, taking core samples from the work of Joyce, Dickens, Nabokov and Woolf, among others, and he quotes with care. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z 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 In print, with the watermarks of Nabokov’s patterns showing behind the narrative, you get the catharsis of a clean descent for Humbert. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z 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 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 The book is filled with Nabokov’s own observations about an America that still felt foreign and exciting to him. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Nabokov thought that Dostoyevsky was improved in English. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Boyd explains that his pursuit of Nabokov involved “wielding a variety of nets, in different seasons and terrains, panting with effort while he flutters free.” Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z After the success of "Lolita," Dmitri Nabokov translated his father's "Invitation to a Beheading" from Russian, and after his father's death, he wrote the memoir "On Revisiting Father's Room." Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z Sue Lyon as Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film of Nabokov's novel. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z If Nabokov had ever had dark, venal thoughts like those of Humbert Humbert’s, they remained thoughts, or words on a page. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Nabokov's quiz question: what are the names of King Lear's dogs? The Guardian Review quiz 2010-12-16T12:56:46Z Nabokov’s emergence, its crucial stage, coincided exactly with Salinger’s. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Soak up seasonal satire from illustrator Simon Warner or imbibe some narrowboat Nabokov aboard the capital's only bookshop barge, Word On The Water. This week's new events 2012-11-24T00:04:02Z But unlike Nabokov, Lem doesn’t exert excessive control over his characters, nor is he as cruel to them. Review | Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 Katy: Maybe I can connect the pollen back to Nabokov’s butterflies... Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z So I finally resolved to visit the copy held in the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, which houses Nabokov’s papers and is open only to credentialed Nabokov scholars. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In the ensuing years, with our company Nabokov, we premiered four more plays at the Edinburgh festival fringe. Theatre festivals should band together 2011-07-14T15:30:15Z Nabokov disliked the idea that others would search his writing for glimpses of his personal life. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Thus, Nabokov and Bellow became my twin peaks by means of serendipity and Cavett. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Nabokov eventually managed to get hold of Mr. Faye’s email address and wrote to see if he’d be interested in meeting her. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “We saw each other regularly over several months and he told me a lot about his life,” Ms. Nabokov said. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The other authors on that list – Borges, Faulkner, Nabokov and Roth among them – later piled on Nobel Prizes and Pulitzers, but Keilson sank into obscurity once more. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z Unlike Nabokov, Wells’s unnamed Time Traveler fantasized primarily about venturing into the future. Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z "It was that combination of naivete and deception — as Nabokov might have said — that made the band so compelling," Mehr writes of the band's early stages. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z One thinks of Nabokov, a lover of butterflies, netting the creatures and sticking them with pins. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z This is captured in such book titles as Nabokov’s “Laughter in the Dark,” and Pauline Kael’s “I Lost It at the Movies.” The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z 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 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 my favorite novels is Nabokov’s “Pale Fire.” Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But its overuse here suggests a bigger issue: Though her analyses of Nabokov, Kingston, Augustine and Richard Wright offer rich aesthetic, religious and political considerations, Karr emphasizes the emotional side of the writer-reader equation. ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But the relationship between Nabokov’s personal history and his signature artistic theme remains murky. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Nabokov has some fine lines about “reading with your spine,” and waiting for the “telltale tingle” between the shoulder-blades that tells you when a book has power. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Nabokov didn’t refer to Lolita’s hips, but her “iliac crests”; Tallent prefers “scapulae” to shoulder blades, “sclera” to the whites of the eyes. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z 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 A former Cornell student recalled in TriQuarterly magazine: "'Caress the details,' Nabokov would utter, rolling the r, his voice the rough caress of a cat's tongue, 'the divine details!'" Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z “Nabokov and I differ very much in the sense that I have a very Irish approach to language,” he said. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Sipped by an adult man in the company of a too-young girl, the metaphor is difficult to ignore, particularly since Nabokov, known for his subtlety, could have written anything into Humbert’s glass, and chose that. From 'Lolita' to 'The Shining,' a tour of famous — and infamous — drinks 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z 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 Schiff, who won a Pulitzer for her 1999 biography of Vera Nabokov, not only has a gift for crafting narrative out of freshly interpreted history but also has a wicked sense of humor. The 5 best nonfiction books of 2022, according to Mary Ann Gwinn 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “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 As with Nabokov’s “Pale Fire,” our understanding of the story is complicated by Mercy’s contradictory testimony. Review | Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z 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 It is not the multiclause essay construction of Nabokov’s “Speak, Memory,” nor the corporeal exploration of female bodies of Rachel Cusk’s “A Life’s Work.” Review: Kathryn Davis turned grief into a glimmering memoir like none you've ever read 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z 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 Epstein published an early excerpt of Nabokov’s “Lolita” and fought unsuccessfully to convince Doubleday to publish the scandalous novel about a professor’s obsession with a 12-year-old girl. 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 The media trained us to wonder annually why he didn’t win the Nobel Prize, even though the snub put him in the company of Tolstoy, Proust, Borges, Nabokov, Joyce and Woolf. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z But as the Nabokov poem demonstrates, other people might have been wondering for him: “And when she sighs — somewhere in Central Park/where my immense bronze statue looms — ‘Oh, Clark …/Isn’t he wonderful!?!’ Superman has many faces. But he's always been better on TV 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Benjamin litters the novel with heaps of literary allusions and references: Austen, Beckett, Proust, Gogol, Eliot, Rand, Melville, Shakespeare, Stein, Frost, Nabokov, Updike, Wallace, Flaubert — this is a partial list. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z 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 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 Nabokov drove around America writing that while collecting butterflies on a road trip with his wife! Matt Berninger webchat – follow it live 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Nabokov doesn’t like the term “unorthodox” to describe Khudobin but rather says that he’ll do whatever it takes to stop the puck. ‘Dobby’ for Conn Smythe? Stars’ Khudobin is making his case 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z 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 Saunders quotes from Nabokov’s essays on the Russians and offers tantalizing tidbits about the writers’ lives. Thrilling little machines: George Saunders analyzes Russian short fiction 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “It’s got a little bit more organized,” Nabokov said. NHL playoffs showcase Russia’s goaltending renaissance 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 Nabokov credits this success and Russia’s goalie renaissance to a mix of more coaching and pure talent that’s possible now in the decades since the fall of communism there. NHL playoffs showcase Russia’s goaltending renaissance 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 Boughner said that performance will earn Dell another start on Tuesday, while usual starter Martin Jones works with goaltender coach Evgeni Nabokov. Sharks beat Canucks 4-2 to snap 6-game skid 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Nabokov, who lead goalies born in the Soviet Union or Russia with 353 regular-season and 42 playoff wins, is helping that process as goalie coach of the San Jose Sharks. NHL playoffs showcase Russia’s goaltending renaissance 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z So he wrote an introductory letter to Nabokov: “Being a rather backward example of that rather backward species, the American publisher, it was only recently that I began to hear about a book called ‘Lolita.’ Walter Minton, risk-taking Putnam’s publisher who defied censors, dies at 96 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “Lolita,” Nabokov’s classic about a literature professor’s obsession with a 12-year-old girl, inspired shock and admiration when released in Europe in 1955. Walter Minton, US publisher of ‘Lolita,‘ dies at 96 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z 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 Hall connects at 15:52 of the first period then knocks a rebound past New York Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov at 16:00. AP Sportlight 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z 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 Nabokov knew that Lolita would shock people, but wrote the book anyway because ultimately, like Ellis, he wanted to. Would American Psycho be published today? How shocking books have changed with their readers 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z In the wings, the Hungarian Envoy was violently shaking hands with Nabokov, whom he mistook for the lady’s husband. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z Her most recent accolade is the 2019 International PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Sandra Cisneros raises up other women at L.A Times Festival of Books 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z I also think there’s a strong correlation—and again I’m citing Nabokov here—between memory, dream, and the creation of literature. A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z 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 Today Mr. Nabokov must find it strange to recall the literary vagaries of his young years. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z In February, PEN America announced that Cisneros will be awarded the third PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, citing her “formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir and poetry.” Sandra Cisneros shares writing tips and reveals what she will do with her PEN Award money 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z 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 He then gilded his text with references to Tennyson, Nabokov, and the Pitt Rivers Museum, in Oxford. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Again, I am reminded of Nabokov, delighting in the way his insomnia would explode in a “sunburst,” filling his head with ideas and fancies to feed his creative soul. Opinion | The Genius of Insomnia 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z On a visit to the latter institution I was shown several tiny moths—belonging to a marvellously multiform genus—which Nabokov discovered in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah in 1943. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 I have a lineage in my head of people like Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, who do nonfiction essays and fiction. A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z 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 Some of them, such as the Battle of the Palpebral Night, Nabokov lost. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 Nabokov began recording his dreams, diligently describing their shifting locations; their elusive characters and scripts. Can a sleepless night awaken creativity? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Nabokov, a Russian emigré and amateur lepidopterist, drew on his own annual cross-country journeys with his wife, pursuing rare butterflies between his academic commitments at Wellesley and later Cornell. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z With great perspicacity, Nabokov stresses the very curious pre-visions of later losses which haunted his childhood—enhancing perhaps its delights. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 Does the presence of Nabokov on the library shelves outweigh governmental support for extremism? How landmark buildings became weapons in a new Gulf war 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Taking in a series of Mexican processions and local festivals, in places, it has the feel of a road novel, not a million miles away from Nabokov’s “Lolita.” Lawrence Osborne does Raymond Chandler quite well, thank you 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z As Weinman notes, throughout Nabokov’s career, he adhered to “the single-minded Nabokovian belief that art supersedes influence, and so influence must be brushed off.” The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z After leaving Russia at the outset of the Soviet era, Nabokov completed his education at Cambridge University. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z There’s another essential challenge, too, just as important: to follow, as Nabokov put it, “the thematic designs of one’s life.” Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Nabokov fled war-torn Europe for the U.S. in 1940. Celebrate Independence Day with these 17 books by immigrant authors 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z This is not surprising, since Mr. Nabokov has coolly prodded one of the few remaining raw nerves of the twentieth century. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z In other words, fiction — like the novel that brought Nabokov international notoriety and renown. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He was a formidably precise writer; as a pilot of the English language, he was as exacting as Austen and as careful as Nabokov. Philip Roth was one of America’s greatest novelists 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Roth also won three annual PEN/Faulkner Awards for specific works, the biennial PEN/Nabokov Award for a body of work, and, in 2007, the inaugural PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. Philip Roth dies at 85; novelist both probed and skewered Jewish American culture 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Jones was sharp from the start, tying Evgeni Nabokov’s record for most saves in a playoff shutout in Sharks history. Jones makes 34 saves as Sharks tie series with 4-0 win 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But it must also be understood that the monsters Mr. Nabokov has created belong to mythology or poetry, not to naturalism. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z Nabokov was notably dismissive of such investigative efforts on the part of journalists or readers. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But computers and digital corpora make this far faster today: Ben Blatt adopted these techniques for many clever experiments in “Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve”, his book from 2017. Machines are getting better at literary analysis 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z In the Nabokov, the man tries to kiss Margot “but she ducked and his lips met only her velvet cap”. The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z And Nabokov demonstrably embeds Lolita’s despair, powerlessness and insistent assertion of agency into the tale. Pushing back: why it's time for women to rewrite the story 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z And now the real horror of their previous relationship, which Mr. Nabokov has kept in solution, so to speak, by skillful comedy, is at last permitted to crystallize. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z There’s no doubt that Nabokov was familiar with the case, and little doubt that he mined its details for his novel — despite what the author maintained. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He received, most proudly, a PEN/Nabokov award for lifetime achievement, and in 2007 was the winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Prize-winning experimental author William Gass dies at 93 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z If intentional, Roupenian’s work joins a long and honourable tradition of reworkings of earlier stories: a feminist rewriting of, or writing back against, Nabokov’s story. The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But he can’t be trusted; so the question is where the book’s sympathies lie, whether Humbert or Nabokov is the misogynist. Pushing back: why it's time for women to rewrite the story 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z According to one interpretation, Mr. Nabokov has merely written an allegory of a European intellectual who falls in love with America and discovers, to his gentle sorrow, that the country is still a trifle immature. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z 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 “Extermination,” Nabokov comments, was “considered no great tragedy for an entire people who were uniformly and irredeemably defined as savage and inhuman.” Thanksgiving and the Myth of Native American "Savages" 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z To me, the echoes of Nabokov make her story even more interesting reading – a commentary not only on contemporary sexual mores, but on sex in Nabokov, in literature. The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z 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 If this interpretation is correct, one can only say that Mr. Nabokov has beautifully concealed his disappointment at having to portray his heroine as a child. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z In her book, Weinman explores the extent to which Nabokov pilfered — in current parlance, appropriated — “a real girl’s plight for his fictional masterpiece.” The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z 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 Nabokov says that his characters are just his galley slaves – but he’s Nabokov, and he’s allowed to say things like that. So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The special class of satire to which “Lolita” belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z 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 At a Manhattan ceremony on Monday night, with the theme “Books Across Borders,” PEN announced that Adonis was the recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Syrian poet Adonis wins $50,000 lifetime achievement prize 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “I am reminded of how Nabokov compared winter trees to the nervous systems of giants,” he wrote back. My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘He was the most unusual person I had ever known’ 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Nabokov used the word “mauve” 44 times as often as one would expect, which makes perfect sense in hindsight. From 'alibi' to 'mauve': what famous writers' most used words say about them 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Whereas Nabokov considered not writing in his native language to be his “private tragedy”, Li has described it as her “private salvation”, not least because her mother doesn’t read English. Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Their concerns about ownership of a language, rather than making me as impatient as Nabokov, allow me secret laughter. To Speak Is to Blunder 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z 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 What Nabokov seems to have understood intuitively is what neuroscience is now proving: reading fiction enables a deeply memorable engagement with our sense of space and place. Will Self: Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Given Nabokov’s emphasis on colour, it’s safe to assume he was aware of the words he favoured in his writing. From 'alibi' to 'mauve': what famous writers' most used words say about them 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z If the joy of studying a masterpiece is, as Nabokov put it, “to fondle the details,” lingering inside the facsimile is unquestionably superior to being herded through the original tomb by a guide. The Factory of Fakes 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Nabokov – a literal aristocrat as well as an aesthetic one – barely ever put a toe upon it. Zadie Smith: what Beyoncé taught me 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z 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 The relief of being free of the past, and safe in the future, is audible in the reply that Nabokov gave to the Paris Review. The Day I Got My Green Card 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z 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 As Nabokov approaches, his personal detail does a wide tour around the meeting spot and locates the bomb with ease. The new Hitman is the perfect episodic video game 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Nobody hopes or expects to dance like Astaire, just as nobody really expects to write like Nabokov. Zadie Smith: what Beyoncé taught me 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z “He’s been their backbone for quite a bit,” said retired goaltender Evgeny Nabokov, who won 46 games for the San Jose Sharks in 2007-08. Holtby approaching Brodeur’s single-season wins record 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z 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 I left school with a burning urge to lead the life of a writer: travelling like Byron, feted like Wilde before his fall, creating laughter like Wodehouse and crafting sentences like Nabokov. Struggling as an author? Stop writing only what you want to write 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Initially, Nabokov considered a butterfly’s locus of individuality to be in its wing patterns, which he reproduced in his drawings at a near-microscopic level of detail. Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z “For the more mortal among us,” Schiff observes, “there is cold comfort in the idea that even Nabokov could not coax two entire vocabularies out of reckless passion.” Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z While working on ‘‘The Mare,’’ she kept repeating a phrase of Nabokov’s — ‘‘the lovely and lovable world which quietly persists.’’ Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z 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 Perhaps Nabokov did not wish to trouble his “Pussykins” with unpleasantries like the rise of Fascism; he mentions Hitler exactly twice. Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Nabokov will work with the organization’s prospects and spend most of his time with the minor league teams. New Sharks coach Pete DeBoer focuses on future not past 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z For years, she taught a course on Nabokov, in the fall, on Wednesdays from three to five. Postcript: Svetlana Boym, 1959–2015 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Nabokov had by then been living for many years at the Montreux Palace Hotel, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Far Away From Here 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 What’s going on, we learn from Schiff, is that Nabokov is enjoying torrid sex with his worshipful mistress while lying to his wife about ending the affair. Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In other news, the Sharks announced that former goalie Evgeni Nabokov will serve as a goaltending development coach and special assignment scout. New Sharks coach Pete DeBoer focuses on future not past 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z From Nabokov, she has also inherited a certain strategic recklessness with figurative language. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z She is looking forward to her next fiction project, which she will begin in August after a month that she’ll spend immersing herself in the works of Nabokov. Baileys prize winner Ali Smith: ‘We’ve always been up against the canon and the canon is traditionally male. That is what this book is about’ 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z |
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