‘utilitarian’ sins on my conscience.” While still in England he continued to writepoetry, mainly in Russian but also in English, and two collections of his Russian poetry,The ClusterandThe Empyrean Path, appeared in 1923. In Nabokov’s mature opinion, these poems were “polished and ...
to meet—out of sheer curiosity—an agent from Bolshevist Russia who was trying hard to get émigré writers and artists to return to the fold. He had a double name, Lebedev something, and had written a novelette entitled Chocolate, and I thought I might have some ...
He and Dmitri had each read Laura, and Ivan recalled, “we were all of the same opinion. It was just a torso, and not a glorious torso.” Dmitri’s real motivating factor, according to Ivan, was that Dmitri himself was not well. In his 70s and facing both steep medical bi...
Vladimir Nabokov, of course, would go on to become one of the most important writers of the 20th century, earning not only critical acclaim but international fame and financial success as well. Sergei would never be famous -- in fact, his existence has been all but covered up by his famil...
In Nabokov’s mature opinion, these poems were “polished and sterile.”Novels: The Defense, Lolita, and The Gift Between 1922 and 1940 Nabokov lived in Germany and France, and, while continuing to write poetry, he experimented with drama and even collaborated on several unproduced motion-...
In Nabokov’s mature opinion, these poems were “polished and sterile.” Novels: The Defense, Lolita, and The Gift Between 1922 and 1940 Nabokov lived in Germany and France, and, while continuing to write poetry, he experimented with drama and even collaborated on several unproduced motion-...
‘utilitarian’ sins on my conscience.” While still in England he continued to writepoetry, mainly in Russian but also in English, and two collections of his Russian poetry,The ClusterandThe Empyrean Path, appeared in 1923. In Nabokov’s mature opinion, these poems were “polished and ...