What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive imag…
Literature is not only about aesthetics, but also almost equally about the successful marketing of an author and his literary works. Ever since the two great Russian authors, Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov, created their own literary capital, cultural merchants have been pr…
Adopting the modernist master Vladimir Nabokov as its guide, Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement is an exploration of the radically changing social, historical, technological, and literary culture of the early 20th century, a time when modes of communication and transporta…
"Yuri Leving's Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russiannovel, The Gift (1934-1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seve…
"Yuri Leving?s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov?s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov?s most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934?1939). From notes in Nabokov?s private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the sev…
Yuri Leving's Keys to "The Gift": A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934 1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the se…
"Yuri Leving?s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov?s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov?s most complex Russiannovel, The Gift (1934?1939). From notes in Nabokov?s private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seve…
"Yuri Leving?s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov?s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov?s most complex Russiannovel, The Gift (1934?1939). From notes in Nabokov?s private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seve…
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Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.