Word: nabokovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALTZ INVENTION by Vladimir Nabokov. 1 1 1 pages. Phaedra...
...Life," says one of Vladimir Nabokov's characters, "makes a constant attempt to prove it is real." Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not. For him, real life ended with a bang in the 1917 Revolution. Ever since then he has quietly taken refuge in an elegant, ironic domain of private jokes and personal fantasies. Lolita made him famous because the private joke was also a public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play...
...York Review of Books last July, picking apart the translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin by Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, 66. At last, in the February Encounter, Lolita's scholarly old man replied to Bunny. "A number of earnest simpletons consider Mr. Wilson to be an authority in my field," Nabokov began, and went on to recall their old association: "I invariably did my best to explain to him his monstrous mistakes of pronunciation, grammar and interpretation" of Russian. And, just to finish the job: "Mr. Wilson's use of English is also singularly imprecise...
...review, the tale seems direct enough at surface level. Smurov, a young Russian emigré in Berlin, anxiously searches among his acquaintances for the identity of which the Revolution stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov...
...savored as a delicious if slightly stale literary morsel-Nabokov is incapable of composing anything that will not gratify both the ear and the mind. It is likely, however, that Smurov owes his resurrection entirely to Lolita-for which all those who now appreciate Nabokov should be mildly, but not extravagantly, grateful...