Nabokov detects the spirit of Gogol's Ukrainian stories in a graveyard scene; the quiet home life and overladen tables depicted in Gants Kiukhel'garten are seen again in the well-fed domesticity of "Starosvetskie pomeshchiki" (Old World Landowners, 1835). In Gants Kiukhel'garten the title...
Stuart Smalley was a character onSaturday Night Liveplayed by Al Franken in the 1990s whose emotional state was always fragile but he adopted daily affirmations in an attempt to deal with his struggles. He typically ended with the affirmation: “I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone...
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?” Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway (1972): “As to ...
There is caveat to this however and that’s that staff of publishing companies also have to consider both the commercial viability of the work and often whether it fits in with the company brand and image. I realise I’ve just used three words (four if you could viability) that many aspi...
(2021), the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature (2020), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1990), Philip was educated at the University of the West Indies and earned graduate degrees in law and political science from the University of Western Ontario. Her writing has featured in numerous ...
Article from The Atlantic on Vera Nabokov and her role in her husband's work. Often people talk about 'wanting a wife' or 'needing a wife' — I've said it myself — as if the only helpful function of a woman [...]Festivals PWF catch-up: Saints & Sinners: Faith, Abuse & ...
s words is only enhanced by the fact that the ultimate object of her book is her son. More disturbing are the other sinister revelations she lets slip throughout the book. Chapter 3 and she reveals that her,“favorite twentieth-century novel”is Vladimir Nabokov’s infamous book about ...
Like another of Nabokov's characters, John Shade inPale Fire,Thomas Chippering is a linguistics professor, "the Rolvaang Chair in Modern American Lexicology at the University of Minnesota." For Tom, words become laden with all the memories of the situations in which they were used, and his...