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...exiled Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English language. Well, it’s no Lolita, but John Crowley’s new novel, The Translator, is also a love affair of sorts—a college girl’s love affair with the Russian language, with her poetry professor and with the power of poetry...
...story of Ilyumzhinov's rise to power reads like a James Bond movie scripted by Vladimir Nabokov. Like many other chess players, Ilyumzhinov was a prodigy. At 9 he was the chess champion of his native Kalmykia, a tiny, impoverished Russian republic populated by the descendants of Genghis Khan. But his talents went beyond pushing pawns. In his 20s he made millions running a string of banks in the early wildcat years of post-Soviet Russian capitalism. At the tender age of 31 the dapper Ilyumzhinov (he has a fondness for white capes and vintage Rolls-Royces) was elected President...
...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...
...this is just a reporter’s story,” Nabokov said. “It just came to the paper after passing through several sources, none of whom was a naturalist...
...Nabokov, who will teach Humanities 2 this term, continued, “The news article itself is also fiction, not fact. One type of fiction has been created by a reporter, and the other type has been created by Melville...