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...Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Recent Capture of White Whale Fails to Mar Melville's Meaning | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Conclusive Evidence," "Bend Sinister," and several works on Gogol will visit the College next term to teach the big General Education course in Humanities 2, according to the list of spring course changes posted in the Houses yesterdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nabokov Becomes Hum 2 Lecturer; New Courses Fixed for Next Term | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

...Nabokov came to the United States several years ago and has been teaching at Cornell ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nabokov Becomes Hum 2 Lecturer; New Courses Fixed for Next Term | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

Members of the cast include David G. Black '53 in the title role, Peter Elvins '53, Yolanda Lyons '51, David Shapiro '51 1B, Mary Bartlett, Allan Miller '54, Dorothy Barnhouse '52, Ann Bregstein '53 and Ivan Nabokov '55. David Binder '53 directs the production, and Joel Mandelboum '53 the chorus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Society Stages Operetta | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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