which was controversial due to its subject matter. He wrote in both English and Russian and was also a lepidopterist, an amateur entomologist who studies butterflies. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Vladimir Nabokov on writing, love, life....
Vladimir Nabokov 和 Joseph Brodsky 都是俄国人,都是杰出的艺术家和思考者。虽然年龄相差40,在美国的经历有重叠之处,人们难免会由这一位想到那一位。那他们是怎样看待对方的?相惜,相轻,或是淡然?我问了问ChatGPT. 至于它说的是不是事实,还有待核查。by ChatGPTJoseph Brodsky and Vladimir Nabokov were both ...
Nabokov began writing ‘Mary’ in 1924. By the end of the year, two chapters had been written, but the writer destroyed the manuscript, retaining only a fragment that was published in January 1925 under the title ‘A Letter to Russia’. Nabokov returned to the idea of writing the novel i...
Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose style alongside Nabokovs own autobiography, letters, and critical writingsas well as the only recently-published The Original of Laurain order to create a complete and updated picture of the writer in the context of his works. Vladimir Nabokov presents a ...
*Nabokov’s notes in his annotated copy: “A regular beetle has no eyelids and cannot close its eyes—a beetle with human eyes.” About the passage in general he has the note: “In the original German there is a wonderful flowing rhythm here in this dreamy sequence of sentences. He his...
Finally, and above all, a great writer is always a great enchanter, and it is here that we come to the really exciting part when we try to grasp the individual magic of his genius and to study the style, the imagery, the pattern of his novels or poems. The three facets of the ...
"A wide-ranging introduction to Nabokov's life and work as well as a game-changer for those readers who thought they knew his writing cold." — Steven Belletto, author ofNo Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives(Oxford U. Press) ...
Russian-born American poet, fiction writer, and butterfly expert Vladimir Nabokov, most famous for the novel Lolita, noted for his dramatic descriptions, experimental style, and carefully structured plots, was one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time. ...
“You are buried in snow, Russia,” pined the poet Georgy Ivanov. Yes, the master house is also buried in snow, but Nabokov goes there at night along the magical gallery of his imagination (in the story “Visit to the Museum,” the novel “Podvig” and in his poems) and takes every...
This dissertation argues that the concept of late style provides a model for reading the works of three twentieth-century European exiles: Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and W. G. Sebald. Viewing lateness as a determining feature of exilic writing, the dissertation proposes that, within the ...