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	Vladimir Nabokov
		The eldest son of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, he was born in St.
		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.
		Nabokov translated many of his early works into English, sometimes in cooperation with his son Dmitri Nabokov.
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	Vladimir Nabokov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as one of the most important novels of the 20th century [1].
		Nabokov was a synesthete and described aspects of synesthesia in several of his works.
		Nabokov's translation was the focus of a bitter polemic with Edmund Wilson and others; he had rendered the very precisely metered and rhyming novel in verse in (by his own admission) stumbling, non-rhymed prose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov (2786 words)

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		These stories, written between the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master.
		Favorite stories, are "A Matter of Chance", in which a Russian waiter working in the dining ca of a German fast train, narrowly misses meeting his wife whom he has not seen in five years.
		Many of his best stories take the kind of imaginative leaps you expect from high-grade fantasy or science fiction; and the complexity of his style is necessary to his conceptions rather than vain showing-off.
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	The Official Irkland Web Site - The Nabokov Assignment, Page 1
		Nabokov himself adds a footnote immediately prior to the secret's divulgence―"In this narrative, all traits and distinguishing marks that might hint at the identity of the real Martin are of course deliberately distorted"―perhaps to add realism to a fantastically told tale.
		In the story, just as in Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek," the life of a man (in this case Mark Standfuss) is dissevered; the story continues with his life, while he, in fact, dies.
		Bierce's story, though, is more of a physical distortion of time through conceit, while Nabokov's story is quite clear about the creation of a double.
	www.irkland.com /writing/nabokov2.htm (6499 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Vladimir Nabokov
		Arriving on the heels of succulent Nabokov reissues (The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, The Annotated Lolita and his awesome, unfilmable original screenplay of the latter) and remixes (Adrian Lyne's glazed, relatively humorless Lolita), Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius is a gripping side trip.
		For obvious reasons, Nabokov's achievements in novels, short stories, criticism and theory have overshadowed his contributions to understanding the butterflies and moths he studied, caught, drew, classified and dissected from boyhood.
		Nabokov's Blues' cogent mating of science and sinewy journalism--Coates is a New York Times editor and Johnson is an expert on Nabokov's breeds--is a terrific adjunct to the existing biographical material on him.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.02.99/nabokov-9948.html (680 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen zu The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov: English Books: Vladimir Nabokov,Dmitri Nabokov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They prove that Nabokov was not simply born with the ability to jot down genius, but that his style of storytelling is a craft he worked on and fiddled with for years before he could perfect it.
		Fans of Nabokov (who is best known for having authored Lolita, which may rank as the best work of fiction ever written in English and is at this moment (11/24/95) being made into yet another movie) have been awaiting these stories for a long time.
		Nabokov is a superb linguistic and literary magician, an exemplary storyteller, and at times a teacher.
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	a dozen notes to nabokov's short stories
		The question of Vladimir Nabokov's literary debt to Franz Kafka is a puzzling one, clouded as it is by Nabokov's own obfuscatory remarks denying genetic ties with the German-Jewish modernist from Prague (Nabokov's principal statements on Kafka are found in Lectures on Literature, 249-93; Strong Opinions, 57; 151-2; Foreword, Invitation to a Beheading, 6).
		Prague was the place where Nabokov visited his family (Nabokov's mother died in Prague in 1939 and is buried there at Olsánske Hrbitovy; the family of Vladimir Petkevic, grandson of Nabokov's sister Olga, still lives in Prague).
		Nabokov probably found both stories too artistically schematic, too revealing of their various sources in myth and folklore, and therefore unoriginal.
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		The stories that were not originally written in English were translated under the author's own careful eye, as well as that of his son.
		With stories such as Revenge, where Nabokov demonstrates to the reader how a common man is capable of murder after having falsely accused his wife of adultery, Nabokov reveals the depth of his understanding of humanity.
		Once written in Russian, the stories of Vladimir Nabokov were translated by his son, Dmitri, and were compiled in a single book in which each story entertains the reader from beginning to end.
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	NABOKOV continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From a student writer's point of view, the most fascinating story is perhaps the early "Sounds," less for its literary strength than for the pleasure of seeing, still gently breathing, the organic development of Nabokov's unique hybrid of aesthetics and feeling.
		lines, the story bears the seed of a parallel universe in which the woman, realizing that the entire earth is also her lover, rises out of her sorrow to meet the narrator in his place of detached perception, if only to wave goodbye.
		The frisson between a large, ecstatic vision and human-scale events, and his ability to inhabit both, characterizes all of Nabokov's work and is part of what gives it such an unusual, muscular poignancy.
	www.salon.com /12nov1995/feature/nabokov2.html (585 words)

	Vladimir Nabokov Biography (Writer/Lepidopterist) — Infoplease.com
		Nabokov left his native Russia after the 1917 revolution that overthrew Nicholas II, then lived in England and Germany before moving to the United States in the 1940s.
		Lolita were made in 1962 (with Sue Lyon as Lolita and James Mason as the aging Humbert Humbert) and in 1997 (with Dominique Swain as Lolita and Jeremy Irons as Humbert).
		The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel Jr.
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	The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
		The prose of Vladimir Nabokov did loom as a paradise for me when I began to read, in The New Yorker more than 40 years ago, the reminiscences that became chapters of "Speak, Memory" (1951) and the short stories about the touching Russian emigre professor Timofey Pnin, eventually collected in the quasi novel "Pnin" (1957).
		Of these, only nine were written in English; one was written in French, in Paris, while the Nabokovs were in transit to America, and the rest in Russian, between 1920 and 1940, within the diaspora that had besprinkled Europe with refugees from the Communist revolution.
		The stories written in this period mostly deal with a remembered, enchanted Russia or an observed population of expatriates, heavy on forlorn eccentrics whose behavior partakes of the provisional nature of their citizenship.
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	Vladimir Nabokov / Mr. Walker
		On one hand, it will afford you the chance to get to know Nabokov's work in great detail, to study his development as a writer, to compare his treatment of the same issues and ideas in a variety of works.
		On the other hand, there's always the possibility you'll tire of his work; while there's no way to be certain, you should try to be sure you have the stamina and commitment to sustain a strong degree of interest over the course of the semester.
		Nabokov's work inevitably raises theoretical questions about the nature and dynamics of fiction, and I will be asking you to do some reading in the criticism, but the bulk of our attention will be on the primary works themselves.
	www.oberlin.edu /english/syllabi/spring99/383walker-s99.html (620 words)

	Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Canadian Slavonic Papers - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Such is the case with Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, compiled and edited by Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin.
		Their contribution to this growing mass of commentary is, they say, due to the fact that some of Nabokov's short stories "deserve a place in the international pantheon of short fiction" (p.
		His piece is not just an examination of Nabokov's stories, but is an enlightened contribution to understanding how Christmas stories can express a poignant tension between joy and sorrow, birth and death.
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	Collection Anime: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - $13.45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These stories, written between the early 1920s tо the mid-1950s, reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master.
		In his story the brothers simply find that they are uncomfortable with one another, and when they go their separate ways the seeming lack of drama beforehand makes their parting all the more poignant.
		Nothing is really resolved by story's end; we аrе simply given an indelible portrait of the difficult, arduous journey that lifе has been for these uncomplicated, decent реорlе.
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	That in Aleppo Once... Study Guide by Vladimir Nabokov: Further Reading
		This critically acclaimed and exhaustive critical biography is the follow-up to Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.
		Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years begins in 1940, when Nabokov and his wife left France for the United States.
		Nabokov, Vladimir, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
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		Favorite stories, are "A Matter of Chance", in which a Russian waiter working in the dining car of a German fast train, narrowly misses meeting his wife whom he has not seen in five years.
		Such a simple exercise is made terribly complicated by their age, their lack of means, the unpredictable nature of their son, and the indifference of the hospital staff.
		Sad as it is, the story is also very amusing, and, typical of Nabokov at his best, works on several different levels.
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		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 (357 words)

	Nabokov, Dmitri; bibliography
		Vladimir Nabokov; translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author
		Vladimir Nabokov; introductions and translations by Dmitri Nabokov
		Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Dmitri Nabokov,
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	The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter".
		The thirteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov.
		The collection includes 65 stories (including one that was long considered lost, but discovered shortly before the latest edition of the volume).
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	The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. - book reviews Studies in Short Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		All of the stories give the sense that Nabokov's obsessive themes--the loss or absence of a lover; the uncanny intrusion of omens; the importance of dreams and hallucinations--recur throughout his career.
		The very first sentence is: "I was pensively penning the outline of the inkstand's circular quivering shadow." Such preciously punning narrators reappear in Lolita and Pak Fire (to mention only two of the novels); here he is associated with such recurring symbols as the shadow and the circle.
		The visitor is afraid of the streets--the city tends to be dangerous in many of Nabokov's fictions.
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	Vintage Nabokov \| Vladimir Nabokov
		Mind you, with Nabokov's s astounding output in three languages, it should not be too easy to fail.
		Those who know and treasure Nabokov will also admit that his autobiography, Speak, Memory is a praiseworthy piece of autobiographical lore, one that can stand side-by-side with the other 20th Century master autobiography, Sartre's Words.
		Indeed, it is strange to think that the presence of a mere band of tissue, a flap of flesh not much longer than a lamb's liver, should be able to transform joy, pride, tenderness, adoration, gratitude to God into horror and despair.
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	Nabokov Summaries
		This paper explains Nabokov's ultimate theme is the meaning and loss of identity, the moment where the soul is either subsumed into another or finds...
		The protagonist, Humbert,narrates the story, from a jail cell, where he is incarcerated for the murder of Clare Quilty.
		In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolit...
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	nabokov 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Connolly's seminar will focus on Nabokov's short fiction, beginning with the prose sketches he wrote in the 1920s and concluding with the stories he wrote in the 1950s.
		Close readings of individual texts will explore Nabokov's experimentation with narrative technique and structure, his treatment of character, and the development of his complex personal system of imagery and allusion.
		The main goal of the seminar is to demystify the "confession" of Humbert Humbert and to reconstruct the story of Lolita hidden behind the narrator's fictions.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/nab101co.htm (256 words)

	The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0394586158
		Here, for the first time, are 65 stories--13 of which have never before been published in book form--by one of the 20th century's great prose stylists collected in one elegant volume.
		Written from the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, these stories will remind readers that they are in the company of a great original, a literary master.
		Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet Butterfly (By Alan Levy)
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	Life & Times: Vladimir Nabokov
		Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the most imaginative and accomplished writers of the century.
		Born in Russia, he lived in the United States and Europe, studying butterflies and other fleeting, vivid facts of life.
		Vladimir Nabokov, 72 Today, Writing a New Novel
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	A Russian Beauty and Other Stories - Vladimir Nabokov - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Olga, the disdainful, sad-eyed Russian beauty who dreams away her shabby days of exile in Berlin; Romantovski, the eccentric lodger pushing his cart full of books; Ilya Borisovitch Tal with his attack of writer's itch.
		The characters in this collection of stories all inhabit Nabokov's own world at the time he was writing, the Russian émigré world of city tramcars and autumn rain in the Twenties and Thirties.
		All of them are trapped and driven by grief, nostalgia, regret, desire - emotions arising from a sense of irredeemable loss.
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	Vladimir Nabokov
		The Russian-American novelist, poet and critic Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is best known for his novel LOLITA.
		In 1940 Nabokov moved to the United States and five years later became an American citizen.
		In 1959 Nabokov moved to Switzerland, where he led a reclusive life until his death.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /n/vladimir-nabokov (111 words)

	The stories of Vladimir Nabokov par Vladimir Nabokov \| LibraryThing
		The stories of Vladimir Nabokov par Vladimir Nabokov
		Vladimir Nabokov : the Russian years par Brian Boyd (12/47)
		Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings par Vladimir Nabokov
	www.librarything.fr /work/23773 (330 words)

	Skellarlist Vladimir Nabokov
		Vladimir Nabokov; Vladimir Nabokov; Hardcover; $26.96; Descriptive information available.
		Vladimir Nabokov : Novels 1969-1974 : Ada or Ardor : A Family Chronicle, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins!
		Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory an Autobiography Revisited (Library); Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd (Editor); Hardcover; $31.50; Descriptive information available.
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