21. Nabokov, Vladimir | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books vladimir nabokov (18991977). My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-114,00.html

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22. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita - University Of Arizona - English 102 The purpose of this site is to add a new voice to the discussion of vladimir nabokov s Lolita. These pages include the thoughts and interpretations of the http://www.coh.arizona.edu/inst/eng102-lolita/lolind.htm

University of Arizona English 102 Lolita Webpage Spring 1997 (This site is best viewed with Welcome. The purpose of this site is to add a new voice to the discussion of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita . These pages include the thoughts and interpretations of the students in English 102 sections 81 and 100 at the University of Arizona. We have sought to rivet and publish ourselves, as well as provide resources for this controversial literary masterpiece. Please let us know your thoughts! Updated September 26th 1997 Contents Links to some other interesting sites with Lolita content Nabokov Biographies Book reviews Film reviews Critical essays "Is Lolita a Love Story?" An online forum in the New York Times Book Review Lolita in Context: Student Essays Lolita : A Collaborative, Annotated "Webliography" (Updated Regularly) Lolita : Images and multimedia from the 1962 and 1997 film adaptations Syllabus for English 102 Sections 81 and 100 Class Rosters and Personal Homepages Resources for Student Writing and Research Resources for Student Homepage Project Some of us had Passover dinner the other night; click here for proof that we don't know how to take pictures.

23. Nabokov's Metamorphosis vladimir nabokov s Lecture on The Metamorphosis . Click here to see the first page of nabokov s teaching copy of The Metamorphosis. http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/nabokov_s_metamorphosis.htm

web hosting domain names photo sharing Vladimir Nabokov's Lecture on "The Metamorphosis" Click here to see the first page of Nabokov's teaching copy of 'The Metamorphosis." I want to discuss fantasy and reality, and their mutual relationship. If we consider the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" story as an allegory—the struggle between Good and Evil within every man—then this allegory is tasteless and childish. To the type of mind that would see an allegory here, its shadow play would also postulate physical happenings which common sense knows to be impossible; but actually in the setting of the story, as viewed by a commonsensical mind, nothing at first sight seems to run counter to general human experience. I want to suggest, however, that a second look shows that the setting of the story does run counter to general human experience, and that Utterson and the other men around Jekyll are, in a sense, as fantastic as Mr. Hyde. Unless we see them in a fantastic light, there is no enchantment. And if the enchanter leaves and the storyteller and the teacher remain alone together, they make poor company. The story of Jekyll and Hyde is beautifully constructed, but it is an old one. Its moral is preposterous since neither good nor evil is actually depicted: on the whole, they are taken for granted, and the struggle goes on between two empty outlines. The enchantment lies in the art of Stevenson's fancywork; but I want to suggest that since art and thought, manner and matter, are inseparable, there must be something of the same kind about the structure of the story, too. Let us be cautious, however. I still think that there is a flaw in the artistic realization of the story—if we consider form and content separately—a flaw which is missing in Gogol's "The Carrick" and in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." The fantastic side of the setting—Utterson, Enfield, Poole, Lanyon, and their London—is not of the same quality as the fantastic side of Jekyll's hydization. There is a crack in the picture, a lack of unity.

24. Vladimir Nabokov On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 430 conversations about vladimir nabokov s books. edit delete. vladimir nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg). edit delete http://www.librarything.com/author/nabokovvladimir

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25. Images - Hitchcock/Nabokov Some Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock and vladimir nabokov. http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue03/features/hitchnab1.htm

Some Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov by James A. Davidson I t is a tendency of criticism to try to shed light on the work of one artist by comparing and contrasting that artist's work to that of another. Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, is usually mentioned in the same breath with Cornell Woolrich, the literary 'master of suspense,' at least partly due to the fact that Hitchcock did such a memorable job bringing Woolrich's novella to the screen as Rear Window Lolita in 1962 based on Nabokov's screenplay). Alfred Appel, Jr. has described the world of Nabokov's novels as "Nabokov's Puppet Show," emphasizing the author's masterful control of artifice and imagination ; so too has recent Hitchcock criticism focused the director's uncanny ability to assert a strong authorial voice throughout virtually all of his films. Thus, it is not surprising that Hitchcock envisioned himself playing the emotions of his audience in a movie theater on a giant organ just as Nabokov, the puppet master, pulled the strings in his novels so brilliantly. I believe Nabokov's complex word play, parodic self-references and manipulation of language is the literary equivalent to Hitchcock's well-known mastery of "the language of cinematic images," which he discussed frequently in interviews. While there were vast differences between the lives of Hitchcock and Nabokov, there were also some profound similarities that I feel shed some light on their careers and work. To begin with, Hitchcock and Nabokov came from substantially different backgrounds. Hitchcock's father was a London wholesale grocer and young Alfred grew up in a stable but distinctly middle class home. Nabokov's father was an intellectual, a member of Russia's ruling class and part of the provisional government first established after the revolution. Vladimir Nabokov grew up in a privileged environment that stressed academics (a colleague of Nabokov's father wrote of the baby Vladimir: "I had the impression that this would be an extremely abnormal upbringing in fatally over-abundant circumstances")

26. Nabokov's Interview. (15) Novel [1970] nabokov then recalled, again in precise detail, the opening scenes of County . of their time George Balanchine and vladimir nabokov are traceable, http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter15.txt

Fine HTML Printed version txt(Word,ëðë) Lib.ru html Nabokov's interview. (15) Novel [1970] During a visit in the last week of August, 1970, Alfred Appel interviewed me again. The result was printed, from our careful jottings, in the spring, 1971, issue of Novel, A Forum on Fiction, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. In the twelve years since the American publication of Lolita, you've published twenty-two or so books new American or Antiterran novels, old Russian works in English, Lolita in Russian giving one the impression that, as someone has said John Updike, I think your oeuvre is growing at both ends. Now that your first novel has appeared (Mashenka, 1926), it seems appropriate that, as we sail into the future, even earlier works should adhere to this elegant formula and make their quantum leap into English. Yes, my forthcoming Poems and Problems [McGraw-Hill] will offer several examples of the verse of my early youth, including "The Rain Has Flown," which was composed in the park of our country place, Vyra, in May 1917, the last spring my family was to live there. This "new" volume consists of three sections: a selection of thirty-six Russian poems, presented in the original and in translation; fourteen poems which I wrote directly in English, after 1940 and my arrival in America (all of which were published in The New Yorker)

27. Vladimir Nabokov | Salon Audio Lolita read by awardwinning actor Jeremy Irons. http://archive.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nabokov/

Salon Member log in Help Benefits of membership Watch a brief ad and read all Salon articles now: Search: Salon The Web Books Comics Community Life ... Sports Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" read by award-winning actor Jeremy Irons By Vladimir Nabokov Print Email Digg it Del.icio.us ... RSS Font: S S+ S++ Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the century's greatest writers. His novel Lolita, first published in Paris in 1955, stirred up quite a bit of controversy and was banned in several countries. By 1958 it hit the American best-seller lists and is now considered a classic piece of twentieth-century fiction. More information on "Lolita" Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English language; Irons makes it a menage a trois." Vogue Listen to this excerpt from the Random House audiobook release of Lolita, a tale of obsession and seduction, read by award-winning actor Jeremy Irons. Lolita Download: [3.3 MB] Stream: Real Media Duration: 9:24 Click to buy Print Email Digg it ... RSS Font: S S+ S++ Sphere.Inline.search("sphereContain", "http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nabokov/ ", "subs:0"); Story finder (3 ways to search Salon) Search terms: Salon the Web A list of all published articles organized by month and year: Previous Years January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005

28. Quoteland :: Quotations By Author vladimir nabokov, “That In Aleppo Once ,” nabokov’s Dozen (1958) Click here for more information about vladimir nabokov http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=601

29. True Syn Authors It should be mentioned that nabokov s mother was a synesthete, as was also his wife, and his son Dmitri. International vladimir nabokov Society http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/html/true_syn_authors.html

Fowler, Ellen Myerson, Julie Nabokov, Vladimir Yardley, Jane Fowler, Ellen Thornetcroft (Mrs. A.L. Felkin) According to Harris In her novel In subjection Myerson, Julie British author. Photo by Nigel Spalding) Vladimir Nabokov In his autobiography, Speak Memory (1966), the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov tells us of his "... In the green group, there are alder-leaf f, the unripe apple of p, and pistachio t. Dull green, combined somehow with violet, is the best I can do for w. The yellows comprise various e's and i's, creamy d, bright-golden y, and u, whose alphabetical value I can express only by 'brassy with an olive sheen.' In the brown group, there are the rich rubbery tone of soft g, paler j, and the drab shoelace of h. Finally, among the reds, b has the tone called burnt sienna by painters, m is a fold of pink flannel, and today I have at last perfectly matched v with 'Rose Quartz' in Maerz and Paul's Dictionary of Color. The word for rainbow, a primary, but decidedly muddy, rainbow, is in my private language the hardly pronounceable: kzspygv" (Nabokov 1966: 34-35). It should be mentioned that Nabokov's mother was a synesthete, as was also his wife, and his son Dmitri.

30. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov A review and a link to other reviews of Lolita by vladimir nabokov. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/nabokovv/lolita1.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - fiction Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: Lolita Author: Vladimir Nabokov Genre: Novel Written: Length: 317 pages Availability: US: Lolita The Annotated Lolita Lolita (Everyman's ed., intro. by Martin Amis) Also in: Novels: 1955-1962 UK: Lolita The Annotated Lolita Lolita (Everyman's ed., intro. by Martin Amis) Also in: Novels: 1955-1962 Canada: Lolita The Annotated Lolita Also in: Novels: 1955-1962 also: Lolita - France Lolita - Deutschland Video: Lolita - Kubrick version Lolita - Lyne version - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: A+ : one of the modern greats See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer The Atlantic Monthly A+ Charles Rolo National Review Frank S. Meyer The NY Observer David Thomson The NY Times Book. Rev. A- Elizabeth Janeway Partisan Review A Fall/1956 John Hollander Saturday Night Robertson Davies The Spectator C- Kingsley Amis Times Lit. Supp.

31. Person Of The Week: Vladimir Nabokov nabokov s father, vladimir Dmitrievich nabokov, a leader of the Kadet party, accepted a position in the provisional government. When the Bolsheviks took http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/nabokov.html

Vladimir Nabokov Week of January 8, 2001 In November 1917, after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas, the family fled to a friend's estate in the Crimea. Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, a leader of the Kadet party, accepted a position in the provisional government. When the Bolsheviks took over, the family fled to England. Nabokov attended Trinity College, Cambridge, studying ichthyology and French and Russian literature. The Entomologist Nabokov came to Wellesley College in 1941 for a year as a lecturer in comparative literature. He returned to teach Russian, first in a non-credit course (spring of 1943), then as a regular part of the curriculum. In addition to the introductory course, as the sole member of the newly formed Russian Department , he taught courses on Russian poetry and prose in translation. While at Wellesley College, Nabokov also held an appointment at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard . In 1948 Nabokov went to Cornell as chair of the department of comparative literature. At Wellesley, Nabokov's courses were very popular. One of his students, Hannah Green '48, talked about being in his class in a February 1977

32. Lolita, By Vladimir Nabokov Charles Rolo s review an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials . http://theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/lolita.htm

September 1958 Atlantic Monthly by C harles J. R olo Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov Article Tools sponsored by: document.write(''); E-mail Article Printer Format H ere it is at last, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Lolita , and aficionados of erotica are likely to find it a dud. Lolita blazes, however, with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce. His book is slightly reminiscent of Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull ; but Lolita has a stronger charge of comic genius and is more brilliantly written. Mr. Nabokov, a Russian now working in his second tongue, has few living equals as a virtuoso in the handling of the English language. A mock sententious foreword explains that the manuscript which follows is the confession of one Humbert Humbert, who died in captivity in 1952 just before his trial was due to start. Humbert introduces himself as a European of mixed stock who, at the age of twelve, "in a princedom by the sea," loved and lost a petite fille fatale What is one to make of Lolita ? In a prickly postscript to the novel, Mr. Nabokov dismisses this question as a problem dreamed up by "Teachers of Literature": he rejects the satiric interpretations which critics have put upon

33. Literary Encyclopedia: Vladimir Nabokov The reputation of vladimir nabokov, in terms of his achievement in establishing himself as a major writer in two literatures, is an extremely rare one in http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3282

34. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 45 quotes and quotations by vladimir nabokov. vladimir nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_nabokov.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Vladimir Nabokov Quotes Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: April 22 Date of Death: July 2 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Vladimir Nabokov Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Gore Vidal Anne Rice ... Will Thomas A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov Caress the detail, the divine detail. Vladimir Nabokov Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

35. The 50th Anniversary Of Nabokov's Lolita Cornell University Library celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of vladimir nabokov s novel Lolita, first published in Paris on September 15, 1955. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lolita/introduction/

Attention: Your web browser currently has JavaScript disabled or does not support JavaScript, so this website will NOT function and/or display as intented. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences, or consider using the latest version of Firefox Mozilla Internet Explorer , or Safari Nabokov at Cornell: Celebrating Lolita's Fiftieth Anniversary Cornell University Library celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita , first published in Paris on September 15, 1955. Nabokov wrote the novel during the ten-year period he lived in Ithaca and taught at Cornell, from July 1948 to February 1959. By Nabokov's own account, he completed Lolita in Ithaca at the end of 1953. Over the course of 1954, he tried but failed to find a U.S. publisher willing to take the risk of handling the book. Disheartened, Nabokov wrote to Madame Ergaz, his literary agent at the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin in Paris, seeking her help in finding a European firm willing to publish the book in English. Nabokov sent his typescript of Lolita to Madame Ergaz in April 1955, and she placed the book with Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press, Paris.

36. The Life And Works Of Vladimir Nabokov Writing in three languages (French, Russian and English) and on three continents, vladimir nabokov (below) enjoyed a career spanning more than 50 years. http://www.fathom.com/course/10701032/index.html

The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov Rodney Phillips, Sarah Funke Seminar Introduction Writing in three languages (French, Russian and English) and on three continents, Vladimir Nabokov (below) enjoyed a career spanning more than 50 years. His body of work is a testament to the power of memory triumphing over both loss and emigration. In this seminar, the director of The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library, NYPL, Berg Collection Rodney Phillips, and writer Sarah Funke explore Nabokov's public life and career through his surviving manuscripts, notes, lectures and photographs. Born to a wealthy and prominent family in St. Petersburg in 1899, Nabokov developed a love of poetry, a passion for butterflies and a fascination with and mastery of languages in his childhood, and these life-long interests would all figure prominently in his prolific body of work. Exiled from his homeland when he was 20, Nabokov continued to write many stories and novels in his mother tongue. Decades later, he translated much of this work into English, often in collaboration with his son Dmitri. In 1940, he left the tumultuous political climate of Europe, hoping to make a name for himself with an American audience. For 20 years Nabokov supported his family by teaching at Wellesley College and Cornell University; but with the slow-building but eventually worldwide success of his controversial novel Lolita , Nabokov was able to devote his life solely to writingand butterfly hunting. His large body of English-language works, as well as the translations of his early Russian short stories and novels, then began to garner increasing critical attentionboth staunch praise and severe criticism.

37. Vladimir Nabokov: A Who2 Profile vladimir nabokov s novel Lolita was so controversial that it went unpublished in America for three years after it was first presented in France in 1955. http://www.who2.com/vladimirnabokov.html

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39. Nabokov A-Z When completed, nabokov AZ will be a browsable document that serves as a quick reference to the works of vladimir nabokov for current and future nabokov http://www.davidson.edu/academic/english/faculty/zk/vnaz/nabaz.htm

Nabokov A-Z When completed, Nabokov A-Z will be a browsable document that serves as a quick reference to the works of Vladimir Nabokov for current and future Nabokov scholars. These entries for Lolita have been provided by the students of English 472: Seminar on James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, taught by Professor Zoran Kuzmanovich at Davidson College. Annotation for Pnin and Pale Fire will follow. For help in your search, please click here. Please click on the first letter of your keyword. A B C D ... Numbers A Ahnaten, King of Egypt "Arlesienne" Auteuil Aunt Clare ... Aztec Red Convertible B Bagration Island Bailey, Benjamin Barbara Basque ... Butler's Academy for Boys C Camp Q Canada Catullus Central Park ... Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien D Dahl, Mona Dante Darkbloom, Vivian de R. Mme ... Duk Duk Ranch E East, Miss Edith, Mlle Eliphstone Enchanted Hunters, The ... Eskimos F Fabian, Miss Farlow, John and Jean Farson Fascinum ... Fatamorganas G Galsworthy, John Girl Scout Motto Godin, Gaston Gold, Edusa ... Grotto of Lourdes H Hall, Linda

40. Nabokov - MSN Encarta nabokov, vladimir (18991977), Russian American novelist, poet, and critic, whose highly inventive writings earned him critical acclaim as a major http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574312/Nabokov.html

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