1 While during the 1930s Nabokov himself placed a debunking biography of Chernyshevsky in his novel The Gift, the author's final parodie double, Vadim Vadimovich N., the protagonist of Look at the Harlequins!, includes in his best Russian novel Podarok otchizne (Gift for the fatherland)...
S. Eliot: Toilets (N/W Letters 214, 237). 3. John Carlos Rowe, in "The Authority of the Sign in Henry James's The Sacred Fount," writes, "The 'form' of the Jamesian novel is constituted by this tensive relationship between the desire for originality and the reflection on those ...
In "Ada," his longest novel and one of his last, Nabokov made his best and final attempt to come to terms with his feelings about his brother in print. "Ada" is the story of an incestuous love affair between Van Veen and Ada Veen, brother and sister. Their young...