Stalking Nabokov / / Brian Boyd.
At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: Th...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE WRITER'S LIFE AND THE LIFE WRITER
- 1. A Centennial Toast
- 2. A Biographer's Life
- 3. Who Is "My Nabokov"?
- NABOKOV'S MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS
- 4. The Nabokov Biography and the Nabokov Archive
- 5. From the Nabokov Archive
- NABOKOV'S METAPHYSICS
- 6. Retrospects and Prospects
- 7. Nabokov's Afterlife
- NABOKOV'S BUTTERFLIES
- 8. Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera
- 9. Netting Nabokov
- NABOKOV AS PSYCHOLOGIST
- 10. The Psychological Work of Fictional Play
- NABOKOV AND THE ORIGINS AND ENDS OF STORIES
- 11. Stacks of Stories, Stories of Stacks
- NABOKOV AS WRITER
- 12. Nabokov's Humor
- 13. Nabokov as Storyteller
- 14. Nabokov's Transition from Russian to English
- NABOKOV AND OTHERS
- 15. Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare
- 16. Nabokov as Verse Translator
- 17. Tolstoy and Nabokov
- 18. Nabokov and Machado de Assis
- NABOKOV WORKS
- 19. Speak, Memory: The Life and the Art
- 20. Speak, Memory: Nabokov, Mother, and Lovers
- 21. Lolita: Scene and Unseen
- 22. Even Homais Nods
- 23. Literature, Pattern, Lolita
- 24. "Pale Fire": Poem and Pattern
- 25. Ada: The Bog and the Garden
- 26. A Book Burner Recants
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX