5 QUOTES WITH «NABOKOV»
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Nabokov.
I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NABOKOV»
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Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter.
Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
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Vladimir
Nabokov: The American Years
The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940.
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since.
A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?'A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age' Independent
Timeless discussions of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others.
Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Fredson Bowers, 1982
Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore, particularly in Lolita, Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada.
With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us into a deranged world, one full of an impudent, startling humour, dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a murderer who thinks himself an artist.
Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster. The original Russian text of this novel was published in 1933.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NABOKOV»
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'Alice In Wonderland was my introduction to surrealism'
Vladimir Nabokov translated it into Russian and it was banned in The People's Republic of China in the 1930s on the grounds that it demeans ... «Galway Advertiser, Jul 15»
My favourite books: Sir Tom Stoppard and Margaret Atwood
... Evelyn Waugh · Ulysses, James Joyce · Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov · Essays, Thomas Macaulay · The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
A hard day's night
Idaho Mountain Express: You've published biographies disparate in time and place: Cleopatra, Véra Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin. What draws ... «Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, Jul 15»
'Go Set A Watchman' is not worth reading. I learned this the hard way.
Vladimir Nabokov. There is a good book buried somewhere deep within “Go Set A Watchman,” the recently unearthed manuscript by Harper ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Beautiful Butterfly on Brink of Revival, Despite Century of Threats
... within it an equally rare species: the endangered Karner blue butterfly, named by lepidopterist (and "Lolita" author) Vladimir Nabokov in 1944 ... «Live Science, Jul 15»
Tuesday's tsunami: Trump, Tut, Katie Holmes and Raquel Welch
"NOTHING IS more exhilarating than Philistine vulgarity," said Vladimir Nabokov . WELL, plenty of people must be highly exhilarated right now ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
Looking back at some of the most bizarre finishes in sports
To make matters worse, Boyle's shot from the corner, which got past unsuspecting teammate Evgeni Nabokov, was the only goal of the game ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
8 Summer Reading Assignments Worth Giving A Second Chance …
It wasn't long before I was mixing in a Nabokov novel here, and some Elizabeth Bishop poems there. Just because I now pick my own edifying reading, doesn't ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
'Nabokov in America': a new world for a literary genius
Robert Roper's “Nabokov in America” looks at the life of writer Vladimir Nabokov after he immigrated to America, and how the move shaped ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
ICYMI: Ilya Bryzgalov Contemplates Retirement
It's also possible to see Nabokov return to the NHL in some capacity as a coach or front office member; where both Brodeur and Bryzgalov have ... «Today's Slapshot, Jul 15»
