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WHEN VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH Nabokov says he writes, ideally, for a lot of little nabokovs, he's not just talking about people who share his eccentric view of "reality" (always in quotes) or his predilection for lepidoptera. To fully appreciate Nabokov's work you need at least a portion of easy brilliance, his fluency in three languages, and his passion for the purest and most pointless play with words. Beyond that, to enjoy his latest novel it helps to have a passing familiarity with his entire oeuvre...
...first name and patronymic "Vadim Vadimych" do not exist in Russian, but they could, the memoirist feels uneasily, be blurred rendering of "Vladimir Vladimirovich." As to his own surname, poor Vadim cannot remember it, though he feels fairly sure it begins with "N" -Naborcroft, he wonders? Nablize? (The experienced reader, meanwhile, notices that Vadim's pseudonym "V. Irisin" sounds a lot like "Sirin," the pen name of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, an émigré Russian of illustrious but not aristocratic background who wrote in Berlin, not Paris, after the revolution. This Sirin, Nabokov has been heard to assert...
...memoirs of Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a colonel in Russian military intelligence, who was executed as a spy in 1963 after being found guilty of furnishing the U.S. with information on Soviet strategy and rocketry...
...authors are Soviet Agent Gordon Lonsdale, whose account of his 20 years in the upper echelons of the British government is now available in Europe under the title Spy, and Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, executed by the Russians in 1963 after 16 months of spying for the CIA and Britain's M.I.5, whose fuddled and footnoted journal is due this month under the title The Penkovsky Papers...
Died. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, 44, Russia's former deputy chief of the State Committee on Scientific Research and Coordination, convicted of spying for the West; probably by a bullet in the back of the head; in Moscow...