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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 ...
Nabokov's original version of Pnin, which he sent to Viking, consisted of ten chapters and ended with Pnin's untimely death from the heart problem he suffers at the beginning of the novel. However, editor Pascal Covici rejected the idea and Nabokov heavily revised the novel, then titling the work My Poor Pnin , before finally settling on the ...
The reflexive structure of the novel, in which neither Kinbote nor Shade can really have the last word, together with apparent allusions to Kinbote's story in the poem, allow critics to argue various theories of authorship for Pale Fire as a whole, including the theory that Shade invented Kinbote and wrote the commentary himself, and the contrasting theory that Kinbote invented Shade.
Coat of Arms of the Nabokov family, members of an ancient Russian nobility, granted to them on 1 January 1798 by Emperor Paul I Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914 The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.
(1966) Nabokov's Quartet (1968) Nabokov's Congeries (reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)) (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories; complete collection of all short stories)
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.
The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at the time he wrote the book, he was unfamiliar with German and "completely ignorant" of Franz Kafka's work. [1] Nabokov interrupted his work on The Gift in order to write Invitation to a Beheading , describing the creation of the first draft as "one fortnight of wonderful ...
The Gift (Nabokov novel) Glory (Vladimir Nabokov novel) I. Invitation to a Beheading; K. King, Queen, Knave; L. Laughter in the Dark (novel) Lolita; Template:Lolita;