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The Invisible Library (Slog)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:52:19 GMT

The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only exist in other books . From the Ks: KLOPPER, Wilhelm: Die Kultur als Fehler from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum KNIGHT, Sebastian: The Doubtful Asphodel The Funny Mountain Lost Property The Prismatic Bezel Success from Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight KOUSKA, Cezar: De Impossibilitate Vitae and De Impossibilitate...

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WYATT MASON—On a Very High Shelf (Harper's Magazine)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:17:49 GMT

Last weekend, Die Zeit published scans of four notecard from the 138-notecard-manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov’s final, unfinished work, The Original of Laura. Composing on notecards allowed Nabokov to set down his books out of sequence; he said he could see in a flash the whole of a novel and its details, and as notecards accumulated in the shoeboxes where they were stored, Nabokov...

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How Lolita can we go? (atHome Top Story)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Poor dear Lolita. Has any fictional character been as misunderstood, marginalized or maligned as Vladimir Nabokov's legendary "nymphet?"

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The joy of text (Memex 1.1)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:44:46 GMT

I'm re-reading (after a gap of perhaps 20 years), Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography. I'd forgotten how good it is: simply ravishing. I keep annoying my companions by reading passages to them. Passages like this description of his Swiss governess: A large woman, a very stout woman, Mademoiselle rolled into our existence in December 1905 [...]

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Very Simple (Responsible Nanotechnology)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week: My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. — Vladimir Nabokov

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The Original of Laura excerpts (the Literary Saloon)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:18:34 GMT

Die Zeit cruelly teases by announcing the first and sole publication anywhere of excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov's last work, The Original of Laura, four index cards worth -- but only in the print edition, not online.

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Dying Wish or Not, Nabokov's Son to Publish Father's Final Work (LisNews)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:37:53 GMT

Vladimir Nabokov wanted his wife to burn the draft of his final novel...she didn't. Now his son Dimitri, 74, has decided to publish the work entitled "The Original Laura."

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Vladimir Nabokov's son to publish last manuscript (USA Today)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:26:41 GMT

Vladimir Nabokov's son says he will publish the Russian author's last manuscript despite his dying request that it be burned.

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Enter McFate (Rodney Welch: The Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (RW) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:21:00 GMT

In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita , there's a classmate of Dolores Haze named Aubrey McFate whose name takes on a particular significance. For the pedophile Humbert Humbert, the name signifies a personal devil that besieges him as sets out to kidnap and seduce Dolores Haze, reminding us (if not him) that he's a character in a book, jerked around in a pattern arranged for him by a God-like...

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Style and Character in Winemaking (Bigger Than Your Head)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:45:37 GMT

In his new book, How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24), James Wood dwells on a tendency in some novelists — John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace — to load their narratives with descriptions and metaphors that would not necessarily find natural home in the thoughts or speech of their characters. These devices [...]

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It's more than 'Lolita' and too hot to handle (Japan Times)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:13:00 GMT

In our anything-goes age, pedophilia remains one subject that makes everyone from film industry executives to ordinary fans nervous, to put it mildly. In "Lolita," Stanley Kubrick made the title character older than the 12-year-old in Vladimir Nabokov's notorious novel, while suggesting the sex rather than showing it, but the film was still at the outer limits of what was permissible...

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This is definitely marketing satire, not parody. (acleareye.com)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:59:11 GMT

"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game." - Vladimir Nabokov

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Writing in English (Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:52:11 GMT

"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" was the first book that Vladimir Nabokov wrote in English. That was in 1938, by the way, when Nabokov realized, with war clouds gathering, that he'd have to leave Paris and find refuge...

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Darwinism and piopular culture: Vladimir Nabokov, "Furious" Darwin Doubter (Post-Darwinist)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:27:00 GMT

So was Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) secretly a fundamentalist Christian, a mad man, or just plain ignorant? The great novelist (Lolita, Pale Fire, Pnin) was, in his own telling, a "furious" critic of Darwinian theory. He based the judgment not on religion, to which biographer Brian Boyd writes that he was "profoundly indifferent," but on decades of his scientific study of butterflies,...

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Nabokov the Darwin critic (Darwiniana)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:39:59 GMT

Vladimir Nabokov, “Furious” Darwin Doubter According to Boyd, Nabokov wrote “a major article,” subsequently lost, “with ‘furious refutations of “natural selection” and “the struggle for life.”‘” He completed the paper in 1941 but all that survives is a fragment in his memoir, Speak, Memory:

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Speak, migr: Nabokov’s First Forays Into English (News & Information)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

In the late 1930s, when Vladimir Nabokov realized that he would have to leave Paris, he saw two probable refuges, England and America, and accordingly began to write in English. “The Real Life of Sebastian……Read more

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NABOKOV ALOUD. (Languagehat.com)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:05:55 GMT

Frequent commenter Jim Salant sent me a link a while back to a reading by Mary Gaitskill of Vladimir Nabokov's Symbols and Signs (as they call it) and a discussion with The New Yorker 's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman (pronounced TREECE-man). Here 's a direct link to the mp3 file, in case you want to download it rather than playing it from the linked page, and here 's the story itself,...

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Lost Book Club (ReadySteadyBlog)

no-reply@readysteadybook.com (Mark Thwaite) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:02:31 GMT

The Lost Book Club is a "very elegant and slick site [...] supposed to be the 'home to any and all literary references made on the show — from Stephen King to Kurt Vonnegut.' (Or Adolfo Bioy Casares to Vladimir Nabokov.)" Via Three Percent .

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Book review: A misguided mission in behalf of Vladimir Nabokov (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:02:33 GMT

In "Imagining Nabokov," Nina L. Khrushcheva provides stirring but ultimately hollow declarations, delivered up in a dizzying whirl of academic formalism, "intensely personal" reflection and wholesale generalization.

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Andrew Wylie signs Nabokov deal (The First Post)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:23:09 GMT

Literary agent Andrew Wylie (pictured), AKA 'The Jackal', has sealed a deal for the rights of the literary estate of the late Vladimir Nabokov. Wylie's coup is timely: in April,…

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