Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

Robert Golla

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781496810953
• eBook ISBN: 9781496810960
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style that advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades, he produced dozens of iconic works, including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and his classic autobiography, Speak, Memory.The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov's numerous print and broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. Beginning with the controversy surrounding the American publication of Lolita in 1958, he offers trenchant, witty views on society, literature, education, the role of the author, and a range of other topics. He discusses the numerous literary and symbolic allusions in his work, his use of parody and satire, as well as analyses of his own literary influences.Nabokov also provided a detailed portrait of his life—from his aristocratic childhood in prerevolutionary Russia, education at Cambridge, apprenticeship as an émigré writer in the capitals of Europe, to his decision in 1940 to immigrate to the United States, where he achieved renown and garnered an international readership. The interviews in this collection are essential for seeking a clearer understanding of the life and work of an author who was pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary fiction.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Ada (The Texture of Time)

Adams, J. Donald

Adams, Robert M.

Albinus (character)

Aldonov, Mark

Alice in Wonderland

American Mercury

American Museum of Natural History

Amis, Kingsley

Anchor Review

Andersen, Hans Christian

Angelico, Fra

Angry Young Men

Anna Karenina

Annotated Lolita, The

Ann Veronica

Appel, Alfred, Jr.

Aristophanes

Atlantic Monthly

Auden, W. H.

August, 1914

“Aurelian, The”

Austen, Jane

Baldwin, James

Balzac, Honoré de

Bardot, Brigitte

Barry, John

Barth, John

Beat Generation

Beckett, Samuel

“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”

Bely, Andrei

Bend Sinister

Bennett, Arnold

Berberova, Nina

Berlin, Isaiah

Bishop, Morris

Blok, Alexander

“Blood Bath of Kishinev, The”

Bloom, Leopold (character)

Bobbs-Merrill Company

Bollingen Foundation

Borges, Jorge Luis

Brecht, Bertolt

Brooke, Rupert

Brothers Karamazov, The

Brown, Clarence

Browning, Robert

Bryusov, Valery

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Bunin, Ivan

Burnt-Out Case, A

Butterflies of Japan, The

Byron, George Gordon

Camus, Albert

Capote, Truman

Carroll, Lewis

Carter, Jimmy

Cash, Johnny

Castle, The

Castro, Fidel

Cather, Willa

Chanson de Roland

Chaplin, Charles

Chekhov, Anton

Chekhov Press

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay

Chevalier, Maurice

Cincinnatus C. (character)

Circular Ruins, The

“Cloud, Castle, Lake”

Colorado Butterflies

Conclusive Evidence

Conrad, Joseph

Constitutional Democratic Party

Cornell Daily Sun

Country of the Blind, The

Coward, Noel

Crime and Punishment

Crossword puzzles

Daily Telegraph & Morning Post

Daniel, Yuli

Darwin, Charles

de Gaulle, Charles

Dead Souls

Death in Venice

Death of Ivan Ilyich, The

Dedalus, Stephen (character)

Deer Park, The

Defense, The

Delalande, Pierre

Deledda, Grazia

Derzhavin, Gavrila

Despair

Dickens, Charles

Doctor Zhivago

Don Juan

Don Quixote

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Double, The

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Zhivago (character)

Dreiser, Theodore

Dupee, F. W...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• The Author of Lolita—an Unhurried View
• Author of Lolita Airs Views on Censorship, Role of Artist
• Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling Discuss Lolita
• What Hath Lolita Wrought?
• My Child Lolita
• An Absence of Wood Nymphs
• The Author of Lolita
• Nabokov
• Vladimir Nabokov Discusses Lolita
• After Lolita: A Conversation with Vladimir Nabokov—with Digressions
• The Man Who Scandalized the World
• V. Nabokov Unresting
• Vladimir Nabokov on his Life and Work
• Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov
• On the Banks of Lake Léman: Mr. Nabokov Reflects on Lolita and Onegin
• USA: The Novel—Vladimir Nabokov
• Nabokov
• The Artist in Pursuit of Butterflies
• An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov
• Vladimir Nabokov: The Art of Fiction XL
• “To be Kind, to be Proud, to be Fearless”—Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation with James Mossman
• Nabokov: A Portrait
• Understanding Vladimir Nabokov—A Red Autumn Leaf is a Red Autumn Leaf, Not a Deflowered Nymphet
• An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov
• Checking in with Vladimir Nabokov
• Vladimir Nabokov on the Loose
• A Blush of Color—Nabokov in Montreux
• VN—RIP
• Index