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...agreed. Nabokov had explored everything: academia and the racetrack, the opera house and mountains. But he still had his father’s literary legacy to surmount...
...Nabokov wouldn’t have given up professional racing, he writes, if he had not recognized his enthusiasm for upholding his literary roots. “My greatest responsibility and greatest talent now lies in the preservation of my father’s literary heritage, to which I have devoted my remaining years,” he writes...
...amateur level, he still races “several Ferraris, my handful of Dodge Vipers, and other occasional exotics.” But that pricey car collection is just his favorites; Nabokov has never been strapped for cash. “He was accustomed to moving in high circles,” Elvins, the former opera singer, says. “He was elegant and he demanded elegance in his lady friends...
Unlike his father, whose marriage with Vera was legendary, Nabokov never married. “I have been enormously fond of women,” writes Nabokov, “and that fondness perhaps blinded me in making my choices and decisions, until it was too late to embark on a traditional ménage...
Without a son, Nabokov now dotes on his father’s memory, recently playing the renowned author on stage at a celebration of his father’s centennial at Cornell. “I was bathed in the thrilling aura of ‘becoming’ my father for a spell,” he writes...