RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Nabokov Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia Na·bo·kov (nə-bô′kəf, nä′bə-kôf′, năb′ə-),Vladimir Vladimirovich1899-1977. Russian-born American writer whose novels, such asLolita(1955) and...
Behind this parody lies Nabokov's strategy of drawing the reader's attention to the false smooth flow of plot in traditional novels, in order to show that "real life" is sometimes fragmentary and inconclusive.MeiKuei Lu淡江大學外國語文學院淡江外語論叢...
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. —Vladimir Nabokov 5 Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my ...
... absorbed into the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a character in Chopin's book, ] who were not maternally inclined.' ( ? ) You could almost say ... the novel grew and it became one of the more well known, and well loved novels of the time. Why did this...
New York: Scribner's, 1934. NY—The Novels and Tales of Henry James. Vol. 11. New York: Scribner's, 1909. RV—"A Round of Visits." In The Portable Henry James. Ed. Morton Dauwen Zabel. New York: Viking, 1951. TA—The American. New York: Signet, 1963. TF—Theory of Fiction:...
Nabokov himself declared that he "can't find any so-called main ideas, such as that of fate, in my novels." He was interested in the physical world, in the world of heart and mind and imagination, and in whatever might lie beyond the human mind. To stress one of these as ...
He married Vera Slonim in April 1925, and their son Dmitry was born in 1934. In his Berlin period, Nabokov published ten novels one of which, Laughter in the Dark, was published in English translation. As life in Hitler's Germany became increasingly untenable, particularly for Vera, who ...
In hisLectures on Literature, Nabokov wrote that “great novels are great fairy tales.” Nabokov had also thought a good deal about fairy tales themselves, building subtexts incorporating their darker incarnations into his novels, from “Cinderella” inPninto “Der Erlkönig” inPale Fire. And ...
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. Past World Vladimir Nabokov 0 0 I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a...
Certainly not. And the same holds for other such novels in this series. The truth is that great novels are great fairy tales—and the novels in this series are supreme fairy tales.Time and space, the colors of the seasons, the movements of muscles and minds, all these are for writers o...