Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet ButterflyPermanent Press, 1984 - 160 pagini "The tone of this introductory portrait of Nabokov is pitched between elaborate Cliff's Notes style and a TriQuarterly interview. Includes two fine critical essays and the most extensive Nabokov bibliography yet published". -- Bloomsbury Review |
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... Chess assumes more importance than mere metaphor in Nabokov's next , The Defense - first published in Russian in 1930 as The Luzhin Defense - Luzhin being its chess grand - master hero . The first time I read The Defense , in the ...
... Chess assumes more importance than mere metaphor in Nabokov's next , The Defense - first published in Russian in 1930 as The Luzhin Defense - Luzhin being its chess grand - master hero . The first time I read The Defense , in the ...
Pagina 98
... chess regular , I recom- mend a little immersion in the game immediately before tackling The Defense . In the sequence of Nabokov's Russian novels , The Defense is a bold leap forward into obsession - the area he made his own in English ...
... chess regular , I recom- mend a little immersion in the game immediately before tackling The Defense . In the sequence of Nabokov's Russian novels , The Defense is a bold leap forward into obsession - the area he made his own in English ...
Pagina 99
... chess ... " one such nine- liner begins . A shorter one ends : " And on the November day which this dream preceded Luzhin was married . " ) And , while the modern - day prefaces with which Nabokov has decked out his Russian - into ...
... chess ... " one such nine- liner begins . A shorter one ends : " And on the November day which this dream preceded Luzhin was married . " ) And , while the modern - day prefaces with which Nabokov has decked out his Russian - into ...
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The Man NabokovHunting in the Alps | 1 |
Invent the World Invent Reality | 44 |
Experiencing Vladimir Nabokov 1 | 81 |
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