Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, 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 | 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...
Writing climate item
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...
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
).
15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...
Writing climate item
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.
Texts
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich. “Introduction and Notes”. A Hero of Our Times, translated by. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, Doubleday, 1958.