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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.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra."
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.
Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff.It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty.
[The Gift's] heroine is not Zina, but Russian literature. The plot of Chapter One centres in Fyodor's poems. The plot of Chapter One centres in Fyodor's poems. Chapter Two is a surge toward Pushkin in Fyodor's literary progress and contains his attempt to describe his father's zoological explorations.
Nabokov was that rare person who was an excellent writer in more than one language. However, interest in his work has extended far beyond those speaking the languages in which he wrote, leading to a demand for translations into over 40 languages.
It was first written and published in French in Mesures (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936) [1] and subsequently in English (translated by Nabokov and Hilda Ward) in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1943). [ 2 ] It was first anthologized in Nine Stories (1947) [ 3 ] and was later reproduced in Nabokov's Dozen (1958) [ 4 ] and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov .
King, Queen, Knave is the second novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin) while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic.Written in the years 1927–8, it was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October 1928 and then translated into German by Siegfried von Vegesack as König, Dame, Bube: ein Spiel mit dem ...