Nabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Here fourteen original essays by an international grouping of leading Nabokov specialists, scholars prominent in other fields, offer new insights into formative influences on his thought and the dominant agencies that structure his writing: emigration, the 'two worlds' theme and multilingualism.

'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown

'...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well.' - Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review

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VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV Professor of Russian Literature, Yale University STEPHEN H. BLACKWELL Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland MAURICE COUTURIER Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Nice, France PAUL BENEDICT GRANT Graduate Student, University of Cambridge D. BARTON JOHNSON Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of California, Santa Barbara ZORAN KUZMANOVICH Lecturer, Davidson College and Editor of Nabokov Studies CHARLES LOCK Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen CHARLES NICHOL Professor of English and Humanities, Indiana State University OLGA SKONECHNAIA Commentator and Translator of Nabokov's works LEONA TOKER Professor of English Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem DIETER E. ZIMMER Journalist, Translator and Writer, Hamburg ZINOVY ZINIK Novelist, Critic and Broadcaster

Inhalt
Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World; J.Grayson Prologue: The Otherworld; B.Boyd & D.Barton Johnson 'Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the Claims of the Real; Z.Kuzmanovich Mimicry in Nature and Art; D.Zimmer Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels; V.Alexandrov Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'; D.Barton Johnson Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits; P.Meyer Transparent Things and Opaque Words; C.Lock Nabokov, Mach and Monism; S.H.Blackwell Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity; L.Toker Nabokov's Last Laughs; P.B.Grant Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of Glory; C.Nichol Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts; M.Couturier The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and Prose of the 1920s and 1930s; O.Skonechnaia The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov; Z.Zinik L'Envoi: Shakespeare; V.Nabokov , translation by D.Nabokov Select Bibliography Index