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	Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nabokov was born in Tsarskoe Selo into a wealthy and aristocratic family.
		Nabokov jumped off the stage and attempted to disarm one of the gunmen, but he was shot twice and died instantly.
		Nabokov married Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikov in 1897, with whom he was to have five children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Dmitrievich_Nabokov (354 words)

	Vladimir Nabokov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nabokov's best-known work in English is undoubtedly Lolita (1955), frequently cited as one of the most important novels of the 20th century, probably followed by the singularly structured Pale Fire (1962).
		Nabokov was a synaesthete and described aspects of synaesthesia in several of his works.
		Nabokov's short story "The Vane Sisters" is famous in part for its acrostical final paragraph, in which the first letters of each word spell out a ghostly message from beyond the grave.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nabokov (2098 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Exiles in a small world
		Nabokov was born, in 1899, into a patrician Russian family who were driven into exile by the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
		Nabokov too was capable of absent-mindedness, and on one famous occasion began lecturing obliviously to the wrong class until he was rescued by a student who had seen him entering the wrong lecture-room.
		Pnin is Nabokov as he might have been in American exile if he had not possessed a mastery of the English language, a supportive and cherished wife, and the resource of literary creativity - a quaint, eccentric, rather sad figure, doomed never to understand fully the society in which he finds himself.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/classics/story/0,6000,1211718,00.html (2319 words)

	Nabokov's Brightly Colored Wings of Memory (washingtonpost.com)
		Writing with passion about "the legendary Russia of my boyhood," Nabokov places each reader in his or her own childhood, no matter how different it may have been from his, spent as it was in a handsome St. Petersburg townhouse and on the three family estates 50 miles south of that city.
		What matters is not that Nabokov was rich and privileged in ways few if any of his readers can comprehend -- "our city household and country place," for example, had "a permanent staff of about 50 servants" -- but that he brings such abiding humanity to this examination of his past.
		Nabokov's entire adult life was spent in exile: in England, in Europe, in the United States, finally in Switzerland, where he died in 1977, late in his eighth decade.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56034-2004May25.html (1443 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
		Nabokov is kind enough to include in his notes and to compliment as "well translated." He italicized, however, words and phrases of which he does not approve.
		Nabokov, in explaining his system, has provided a guide to pronunciation which he evidently imagines to be useful to the reader with no Russian since he prefixes it to each volume except the last.
		Nabokov's discussion of such achievements seems to me the department of his commentary which is most valuable to the student of Pushkin or to the student of any kind of poetry.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/12829 (4674 words)

	CNN - Nabokov - The Writer
		When he had finished "Lolita," Nabokov knew what he held in his hands, and he was not shy about sending it to publishing houses for acceptance.
		Nabokov was working on a novel when he died in 1977.
		Nabokov's work was discovered by a new generation of readers with the remake of the movie "Lolita." As with the first one, 1997's "Lolita" starring Dominique Swain and Jeremy Irons caused controversy and failed to land a U.S. distributor during its first run.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/biography/the.writer (1052 words)

	1: every brain is on the brink
		Nabokov compares it to the "stab of wonder that accompanies the precise moment when, gazing at a tangle of twigs and leaves, one suddenly realized that what had seemed a natural component of that tangle is a marvelously disguised insect or bird."
		First-time readers of Nabokov are instantly struck by the dazzling poetry of his prose, the phonetic devices, the vast, infinitely pliable vocabulary, and the rather exotic use of grammar.
		Nabokov's ideal reader will immerse himself in the surface, feeling it as real sensory experience, while at the same time remaining continually aware that the book is the artifice of a distinct creative mind.
	www.dutchgirl.com /foxpaws/biographies/O_Window_in_the_Dark!/nabokovch1.html (4543 words)

	Nabokov: Genius Ignored
		Nabokov's father, who was also on the platform, tried to protect Milyukov and was killed.
		Nabokov spent most of his twenties and thirties in Berlin, lived in Paris for two years, and then, in 1940, emigrated to the United States.
		Nabokov was very intelligent, had an excellent sense of humor, and created some very original stories and characters.
	www.serve.com /Lucius/Nabokov.index.html (1447 words)

	Salon Books \| The gay Nabokov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Nabokovs were members of imperial Russia's most exclusive social circles, and the children grew up in a glamorous whirl of country estates, liveried servants, balls, boating parties and annual vacations in Biarritz, France, and on the Riviera.
		Elena Sikorski, née Nabokov, the girl with the dachshund in her lap, is now 93 and the last surviving Nabokov sibling, but she remembers her aristocratic Russian youth with absolute clarity.
		Nabokov was fascinated by doubles, and his work is full of them -- mirrors, twins, reflections, chance resemblances.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2000/05/17/nabokov (1059 words)

	Nabokov carried tradition of gentleman naturalist into mid-century, The Center for the Humanities, Oregon State ...
		Although writer Vladimir Nabokov often used a hand lens for his taxonomic study of butterflies, historian Daniel Alexandrov may be the first to treat Nabokov himself as a "lens," specifically to provide a view of fundamental changes in Western culture during the first half of the 1900s.
		Nabokov's science, like his writing, is inseparably rooted in a privileged upbringing in a St. Petersburg house and country estate rich with paintings and insects, art and nature.
		His vision of nature and belief in the immanent laws of form put Nabokov at the center of a debate in taxonomy and evolutionary biology fueled by Darwinian ideas, including Ernst Mayr's population concept of species, that is as an interbreeding population rather than a set of individuals sharing observable "type" characteristics.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/humanities/newsletter/2000-spring/nabokov.html (867 words)

	The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov
		Nabokov, however, was the final reviewer of his translations, whether he fine-tuned the language or performed a larger overhaul of the original text.
		Nabokov developed Kamera obskura (Laughter in the Dark) from the sketch of his earlier, unpublished story "Bird of Paradise." Despite the dwindling numbers of Russians in Berlin--by the summer of 1931 there were 30,000--Nabokov was able to draw full houses to two readings in the fall and winter.
		Nabokov's protagonist is Fyodor, whose chef d'oeuvre is a critical biography of Nikolai Chernyshevski, the father of socialist realism in 1860s Russia and a revered figure in Soviet circles.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701032/session2.html (2738 words)

	Nabokov as Translator
		Nabokov instead decided to find pieces of Russian verse which schoolchildren in Russian schools were expected to learn and recite, then make parodies on them.
		Nabokov also sought to "translate" the situation of the novel into one familiar to the Russian child.
		Part of the reason for Nabokov's almost total change in attitude to the question of how to go about translating literature was brought about by the complete change in the intended audience of his translation.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/3682/nabokov2.html (1768 words)

	Nabokov, Vladimir on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the great novelists of the 20th cent., Nabokov was an extraordinarily imaginative writer, often experimenting with the form of the novel.
		Le musée Vladimir Nabokov menacé d'expulsion faute d'argent
		Nabokov's Butterflies; 'It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.' Vladimir Nabokov.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nabokov.asp (716 words)

	Vladmir Nabokov: The Russian Years by John Simon
		Nabokov, moreover, is more economical than Balzac, substituting as he does “rapid shifts of focus” for more ponderous “Balzacian amassment of information.” These shifts allow Nabokov to “mix the exact detail of a Van Eyck with the casually unfilled space of a Hokusai”; plainly, Balzac never moved in such fast—or, at any rate, rapidly shifting—company.
		Nabokov’s story “Terra Incognita,” we are told, “might have been merely a Borgesian conundrum, had not Nabokov’s passion for exploration and for nature made it something more,” and down goes the sight-impaired lariateer of the pampas.
		Nabokov’s notebooks of this period reveal, along with careful studies of Russian versification, the metaphysical speculations that were to accompany him everywhere; Boyd Nabokovizes about his subject’s “phonic patter and cryptic pattern.” Here, too, Nabokov’s lifelong enemy, poshlost (philistine vulgarity), begins to become an object of scorn and satire.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/09/feb91/nabokov.htm (5227 words)

	Vladimir Nabokov Centennial \| Biography
		The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets.
		The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
		Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/nabokov/biography.html (299 words)

	CONTEXT: Keith Gessen reading Vladimir Nabokov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If Nabokov was, as he often claimed, a God in his fictional universes, and his loyal readers were, as he sometimes called them, little Nabokovs, then the posthumous Nabokov has produced a very jealous bunch of little Gods.
		Nabokov is their favorite writer, the convenient novelistic illustration of their theoretical axioms.
		To put it swiftly and crudely--and Nabokov's critical judgments are often precisely that--the fundamental fact of Nabokov's life, the "syncopal kick," was his flight from the Bolsheviks in 1919.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no6/gessen.html (1734 words)

	Images - Hitchcock/Nabokov
		I believe Nabokov's complex word play, parodic self-references and manipulation of language is the literary equivalent to Hitchcock's well-known mastery of "the language of cinematic images," which he discussed frequently in interviews.
		Nabokov's father was an intellectual, a member of Russia's ruling class and part of the provisional government first established after the revolution.
		Both had but one child, Nabokov a son and Hitchcock a daughter, and the children of each was involved in their father's work (Dimitri Nabokov translated some of his father's novels and Pat Hitchcock acted in three of her father's films).
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue03/features/hitchnab1.htm (625 words)

	the international vladimir nabokov society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, was a prominent and respected liberal politician; his mother, Elena Ivanovna, was a noble and wealthy Russian with an artistic heritage.
		The Nabokov family habitually spoke a melange of French, English, and Russian in their household, and this linguistic diversity would play a prominent role in VN's development as an artist.
		The elder Nabokov leapt off of the stage in an effort to disarm one of the gunmen, was shot twice, and died instantly.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/bio.htm (1192 words)

	Nabokov
		Beyond Lolita: Rediscovering Nabokov on his birth centennial.
		Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's life and works in four parts.
		Nabokov carried tradition of gentleman naturalist into mid-century.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/ltrn101/nabokov.htm (228 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Nabokov, Vladimir
		Forced to flee first Russia and then Germany, Nabokov spent some time in America, where he wrote Lolita, the novel that allowed him finally to take up writing full-time (it can be read as a metaphor for the impossibility of understanding between the old world and the new).
		Kubrick's 1962 Lolita, adapted by Nabokov, succeeds brilliantly - despite a rather adult Lolita - by virtue of Peter Sellers's extraordinary performance, inventive direction and a willingness to depart from the wordy, 'unfilmable' novel.
		Nabokov drew them sometimes as doodles, sometimes as a small gift, especially for his wife.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-114,00.html (566 words)

	Vlad the Impaler
		For Nabokov, it consisted of dissecting insects, distinguishing among them by minute physical differences (most often in their ''sculpturesque'' genitalia) and figuring out where each species fits in the larger scheme of scientific classification.
		As a lepidopterist, Nabokov was an expert in the group of small, beautifully colored butterflies known as blues.
		''Nabokov's Blues'' is also charming in describing some of the lepidopterists who then joined with Johnson in a concerted effort to build on the taxonomic basis Nabokov had provided and vastly expand our knowledge of blues.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20connift.html (840 words)

	Nabokov's Butterflies - Vladimir Nabokov
		Vladimir Nabokov was, famously, fascinated by butterflies and besides being one of the greatest writers of the 20th century he was also a lepidopterist of some note.
		Nabokov's Butterflies then proceeds chronologically (save the first autobiographical excerpt) with "selected writings" by Nabokov, from the time of his youth to his dying days.
		Nabokov lovers should also be thrilled -- although surprisingly much of the material will, in fact, be familiar.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nabokovv/butterfs.htm (1817 words)

	The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov
		Nabokov responded with The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, in which the Russian émigré narrator, V., is on the trail of his half brother, the writer Sebastian Knight.
		In 1946, Nabokov wrote to Doubleday that he was planning "a new kind of autobiography, or rather a new hybrid between that and a novel." From the start he envisioned it as a series of discrete but stylistically and thematically linked chapters.
		Nabokov once referred to Ada as his "most cosmopolitan and poetic novel." Simultaneously a family epic of the Russian aristocracy, a literary history of Russia and a meditation on the nature of time, Ada is arguably Nabokov's most difficult book.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701032/session5.html (2671 words)

	Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
		This is unfortunate, because Nabokov's novel is a remarkable work of artistry, among the finest written in English in the second half of the twentieth century.
		Few novels are both as sad and as amusing as this one, with Nabokov mixing and managing both tragedy and comedy perfectly.
		Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was among the leading authors of the 20th century, writing significant works in both Russian and English.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nabokovv/lolita1.htm (970 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Vladimir Nabokov (1899)
		Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (April 22,; 1899 -- July 2,; 1977) was a Russian and American writer and lepidopterist.
		Nabokov's stature as a literary critic is founded on his four volume translation of and commentary on Aleksandr Pushkin's Russian soul epic Eugene Onegin.
		This combined with his specialty in the relatively unspectacular tribe Polyommatini of the family Lycaenidae has left this facet of his life unknown to the broad range of his literary fans.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=298 (594 words)

	{ w a x w i n g } the vladimir nabokov appreciation site
		Which doesn't come close to describing Nabokov's attention to sensuous detail, to the grand specifics, to the painstakingly devious characters inhabiting his stories, to the strange funhouse feel to the whole thing.
		A complete bibliography of Nabokov's novels, criticism, and sundries, all of which can be purchased through Amazon.com.
		A collection of quotes from novels not written by Nabokov that mention Nabokovian themes and characters, and even the author himself.
	www.fulmerford.com /waxwing/nabokov.html (368 words)

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