The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's...
Literary responses
Angela Carter
Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop.
qtd. in
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14.
11
Lorna Sage
saw it as sceptically exploring Otherness, and demonstrating that escaping patriarchy does not mean escaping mythologies. Linden Peach
commented that after...
Textual Features
Zadie Smith
ZS
set Picnic, Lightning, her second story in The May Anthology of 1997, amid louche society in Paris. She acknowledges the influence of Nabokov
(whose most famous narrator, Humbert Humbert, has a mother...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mavis Gallant
The essays comprising part one cover such topics as the 1968 student protests in Paris, the writer Marguerite Yourcenar
, and the case of Gabrielle Russier
, while the reviews of part two take...
1854: A Hero of Our Times, a novel by Russian Romantic...
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1854
A Hero of Our Times, a novel by Russian Romantic poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
(who died in 1841), was published in English translation.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich. “Introduction and Notes”. A Hero of Our Times, translated by. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, Doubleday, 1958.
xii, Notes
Lavrin, Janko. Lermontov. Bowes and Bowes, 1959.
109
In his 1958 translation, Vladimir Nabokov
claims that...
1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...
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1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
112
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
391-2
1980: Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections...
15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...
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15 April 2003
Iranian academic Azar Nafisi
published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich. “Introduction and Notes”. A Hero of Our Times, translated by. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, Doubleday, 1958.