Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire",written by the fictional poet John Shade,with a foreword,lengthy commentary and index written by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague,Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both fictional authors are central characters. Nabokov wrote Pale Fire in 1960–61,after the success of Lolita had made him financially independent,allowing him to retire from teaching and return to Europe. It was commenced in Nice and completed in Montreux,Switzerland.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin,was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist,poet,translator,and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899,Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin,where he met his wife. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States,where he began writing in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961,where he settled in Montreux,Switzerland.
Charles Kinbote is the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.
Pnin is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English;it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States launched Nabokov's career into literary prominence. Its eponymous protagonist,Timofey Pavlovich Pnin,is a Russian-born assistant professor in his 50s living in the United States,whose character is believed to be based partially on the life of both Nabokov's colleague Marc Szeftel as well as on Nabokov himself. Exiled by the Russian Revolution and what he calls the "Hitler war",Pnin teaches Russian at the fictional Waindell College,loosely inspired by Cornell University and Wellesley College—places where Nabokov himself taught.
Ada or Ardor:A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.
The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel,and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin,and it was published in serial form under his pen name,Vladimir Sirin.
The Original of Laura is an incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov,which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was published by Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov in 2009,despite the author's request that the work be destroyed upon his death.
Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946,and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. It was Nabokov's eleventh novel and his second written in English.
Despair is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov,originally published in Russian,serially in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936,and translated to English by the author in 1937. Most copies of the 1937 English edition were destroyed by German bombs during World War II;only a few copies remain. Nabokov published a second English translation in 1965;this is now the only English translation in print.
Speak,Memory is a memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966.
Golden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by philologists to the first half of the 19th century. This characterization was first used by the critic Peter Pletnev in 1824 who dubbed the epoch "the Golden Age of Russian Literature."
"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov,written in English and first published,May 15,1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen.
The Eye,written in 1930,is Vladimir Nabokov's fourth novel. It was translated into English by the author's son Dmitri Nabokov in 1965.
Look at the Harlequins! is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov,first published in 1974. The work was Nabokov's final published novel before his death in 1977.
Darwinian literary studies is a branch of literary criticism that studies literature in the context of evolution by means of natural selection,including gene-culture coevolution. It represents an emerging trend of neo-Darwinian thought in intellectual disciplines beyond those traditionally considered as evolutionary biology:evolutionary psychology,evolutionary anthropology,behavioral ecology,evolutionary developmental psychology,cognitive psychology,affective neuroscience,behavioural genetics,evolutionary epistemology,and other such disciplines.
Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova was the wife,editor,and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov,and a source of inspiration for many of his works.
This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet",Dolores Haze,whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather. Privately,he calls her "Lolita",the Spanish nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English,but fear of censorship in the U.S. and Britain led to it being first published in Paris,France,in 1955 by Olympia Press.
Nabokov’s Butterflies is a book edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle that examines and presents Vladimir Nabokov’s passion for butterflies in his literary presentation.
The Tragedy of Mister Morn is a verse drama by Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The play is one of his first major works.
