qtd. in
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Standard Name: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | 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. |
| 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 | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |
| 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... |
Timeline
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...
Women writers item
1980
Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections by Penelope Gilliatt
collected her various reviews and profiles of celebrities (including Nabokov
, Hitchcock
, Woody Allen
, and Diane Keaton
).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Texts
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich. “Introduction and Notes”. A Hero of Our Times, translated by. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, Doubleday, 1958.