Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art ... When they first met she was “wearing a mask,” the eye shape on the butterfly wing suggesting a lady’s gaze. Does a deeper understanding ...

A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for ...

THE WALTZ INVENTION by Vladimir Nabokov. 1 1 1 pages ... His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play, written ...

which to the untrained eye look more like the down-covered stamens of flowers. (One index card compares 54 mystifying anatomical variants.) Nabokov did keep some whole butterflies in his ...

Like Joseph Conrad before him, Nabokov dreamt of making the reader “see” (see the movie in the mind’s eye, and feel the power of the images). Proof that he was self-consciously writing a ...

The axiom that great novels make bad movie adaptations has not been entirely true for Vladimir Nabokov, whose books ... admitted that he wrote the book with an eye toward a screen sale.

(There’s so much more than “Lolita.”) Credit...Photo via Getty Images Supported by By Molly Young People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a ...