Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, No. 21, pp. 7 - 14.
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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 | 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
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
).
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.