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Jun 28, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-born American novelist and critic and the foremost of the post-1917 emigre authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects.
Jun 18, 2024 · Lolita, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955 in France. Upon its American publication in 1958, Lolita created a cultural and literary sensation. The novel is presented as the posthumously published memoirs of its antihero, Humbert Humbert.
Jun 28, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov - Novelist, Poet, Critic: Nabokov’s major critical works are an irreverent book about Nikolay Gogol (1944) and a monumental four-volume translation of, and commentary on, Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1964).
Jun 17, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov — ‘Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.No single word in English renders...
Jun 23, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov — ‘It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.’
Jun 15, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov — ‘Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a ...
3 days ago · Biography of Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] (listen); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Quotations from Vladimir Nabokov: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred ...
6 days ago · Владимир Набоков родился 10 (22) апреля 1899 года в Санкт-Петербурге в состоятельной дворянской семье. Отец — Владимир Дмитриевич Набоков (1869—1922), юрист, известный политик, один из ...
