Word: nabokov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VLADIMIR NABOKOV: LECTURES ON LITERATURE Edited by Fredson Bowers; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 385 pages...
...satisfied with their seats? O.K. No talking, no smoking, no knitting, no newspaper reading, no sleeping, and for God's sake take notes." So began Literature 311-312 at Cornell in the '50s, Professor Nabokov presiding. Teaching was of necessity Nabokov's livelihood in those pre-Lolita days, and he took to it as he took to all the shifting fortunes of his long émigré life: with energy, flair and an unfailing relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future...
...society has ever been built on the automobile like the U.S.'s. In his novel Lolita, the late Vladimir Nabokov had his hero drive mindlessly around the U.S. because that represented the quintessential American experience. With only 5.3% of the total world population, Americans drive almost 40% of the world's motor vehicles. There is a car for almost every single licensed driver: 120 million, vs. 143 million. Americans use their cars for work and play; they eat in them, sleep in them, pray in them, see movies in them, even make love in them. Some...
...French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the simple-minded Chance of Being There...
...October 1958, when Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita and Harry Golden's memoir Only in America were the most popular new books in the U.S., TIME published its first weekly list of bestsellers. Compiled from information provided by bookstores to TIME correspondents in 22 cities, the list was then one of the few to be truly national in scope. It has since become a bestseller in its own right, distributed by the Associated Press to its 1,370 member newspapers. But as the technology of publishing books has advanced, so has the arcane art of counting book sales...