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employment, during first months in U.S., (1)
The Enchanter (Nabokov)
dialogue in, (1)
as failed work, (1), (2), (3), (4)
generic description in, (1)
history of, (1), (2)n
parallels to Lolita in, (1), (2)n
sexual predation of girls as theme in, (1), (2), (3), (4)
England, Nabokov’s efforts to move to, (1)
English language
Nabokov’s spoken English, (1)
Nabokov’s transition to
and comfort of scientific jargon, (1), (2)
and Lolita, slang in, (1), (2)
mastery, achievement of, (1), (2)
move to America and, (1)
Nabokov on, (1)
as obstacle to literary work, (1)
English language authors, World War II-era antisemitism of, (1)
Epstein, Jason, (1), (2)
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
and character as construction from literary sources, (1), (2)
echoes of in Lolita, (1)
epigraph of, (1)
influence on Nabokov, (1), (2)
Onegin’s “weary negligence,” (1)
plot of, (1)
publication of, (1), (2)
Tatiana’s obsessive love in, (1)
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), Nabokov’s translation and commentary, (1), (2), (3), (4)
funding of, (1)
issues in, (1)
obsession with detail and, (1), (2), (3), (4)n176–77
research for, (1)
time spent in, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Wilson’s review of, (1)
writing style of, (1)
The Eye (Nabokov), (1)
Faulkner, William
Absolom, Absolom!, (1)
“The Bear,” (1)
and belief in genius, (1)
on Moby-Dick, (1)
Nabokov on, (1)n, (2), (3), (4)n
Nabokov’s familiarity with, (1)
and sexual frankness in fiction, (1)
Field, Andrew, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
filmmakers, émigré, (1)
Fitzgerald, Scott, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
France
Lolita in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Nabokov as celebrity in, (1)
Nabokov visit to Paris (1937), (1)
wartime refugees from, (1)
France, Nabokovs’ residence in, (1)
difficulties of finding work, (1)
flight from, (1)
poverty during, (1), (2)
social life, (1)
writing in, (1), (2)
Freudian theory
Nabokov’s dislike of, (1)
sexuality in Lolita and, (1)
Frumkin, Yakov, (1), (2), (3)n
Futurists, influence on Nabokov, (1)
Garnett, Constance, (1), (2)n
genius, Nabokov’s belief in, (1)
Gentleman’s Agreement (Nabokov), (1)
geography in Nabokov’s work
in Ada vs. Pnin, (1)
in Pale Fire, (1)
reality of in American novels, (1)
The Gift (Nabokov)
critical reception of, (1)n
critique of Russian literature in, (1)
echoes of Nabokov’s biography in, (1)n
mountain landscapes in, (1)n
Nabokov on, (1)
political themes in, (1)
publication of, (1), (2)
quality of, (1)
sexual predation of girls as theme in, (1)
translation of, (1), (2)
writing of, (1)
Gilkey, Art, (1), (2)
Glory (Nabokov), (1), (2)
Godin, Gaston (character), models for, (1)
Gogol, Nikolai. See also Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov)
Dead Souls, Nabokov’s translation of, (1), (2)
life of as cautionary tale, (1), (2)n
Nabokov on, (1), (2)n
Nabokov’s critique of translations of, (1), (2)n
Gordon, John, (1)
Gorky, Maxim, (1), (2)
Grand Canyon
Nabokov on, (1)
Nabokovs’ visits to, (1), (2), (3)
Great Depression, influence on Wilson, (1)
Green, Suzanne Rab, (1)
Greene, Graham, (1), (2)n
Grimaldi, David, (1)
Grynberg, Roman, (1), (2), (3)n, (4), (5)n
Guadanini, Irina, (1), (2), (3)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Nabokov’s nomination of Berkman for, (1)
Nabokov’s winning of, (1), (2)n, (3), (4), (5), (6)n
The Guillotine at Work (Maximoff), (1), (2)
Hamsun, Knut, (1)
Hardwick, Elizabeth, (1)
Harris, Frank, (1)
Harris, James B., (1)
Harvard University. See also Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)
Dmitri Nabokov at, (1), (2), (3)
Mountaineering Club at, (1)
Nabokov efforts to work for, (1), (2)n
Nabokov’s research at (1956), (1), (2)
Nabokov’s teaching at (1952), (1), (2), (3)
wartime transformation of, (1), (2)n
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
health of Nabokov
dental problems, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
hemorrhagic colitis (1944), (1)
illness of fall 1951, (1)
insomnia, (1), (2)
intercostal neuralgia, (1)
physical vigor, (1)
smoking, (1), (2), (3)
stress-related psoriasis, (1)
Western trips and, (1), (2)
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Nabokovs’ voyage to U.S. and, (1), (2)n
Hemingway, Ernest
on abstract words, (1)n
anti-Semitism of, (1)
friends of, (1)
Nabokov’s familiarity with, (1)
Nabokov’s views on, (1)n, (2), (3)
“One Reader Writes,” (1)
prominence of in 1940s, (1)
Hessen, Iosif, (1)
Hewes, Charles Edwin, (1)
historical irony, lack of in Nabokov, (1)n
Hitchcock, Alfred, (1), (2), (3)n
Holocaust, rare mentions of in Nabokov, (1)
Hopi House (Grand Canyon National Park), (1), (2)
Horner, Sally, (1)
Humbert, Humbert (character)
anticipations of in Bend Sinister, (1)
as anti-Freudian, (1)
and Byronic tradition, (1)
coercion of Lolita, (1)
complex reader response to, (1)
deaths attributable to, (1)
dream of breeding future Lolitas, (1)
emptiness of West and, (1)
epiphany outside Ephinstone, (1), (2)
growing sense of unreality in, (1)
heart attack of, (1)
and learning to read America, (1)
models for, (1)
Nabokov’s distance from evil of, (1)
national parks/monuments visited by, (1)n
paranoia of, (1)
pity toward Lolita evoked by, in final scenes, (1)
Salinger’s Holden Caulfield and, (1)
self-recrimination in, (1)
similar characters in Nabokov, (1)
interpretation, Nabokov on, (1), (2), (3), (4)n, (5)n
Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov)
Bend Sinister and, (1)
English translation of, (1), (2), (3), (4)n
publication of, (1), (2)
quality of, (1)
style of, (1), (2)n
Wilson on, (1)
writing of, (1)
Ithaca, New York. See also Cornell University, Nabokov at
Dmitri Nabokov on life in, (1)
as setting of Pale Fire, (1)
Jakobson, Roman, (1), (2)n
James, Henry, (1), (2), (3), (4)<
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Jannelli, Altagracia de
early death of, (1)
efforts on behalf of Nabokov, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
Nabokov’s correspondence with, (1), (2), (3)
relationship with Nabokov, (1), (2)
views on Nabokov’s career, (1), (2)
John Gordon Society, (1)
Joyce, James
acquaintance with Nabokov, (1)
and belief in genius, (1)
influence on Nabokov, (1), (2), (3)
Nabokov on, (1)
and obscenity laws, (1)
Pasternak and, (1)
publisher of, (1)
Kansas, butterfly collecting in, (1)
Karlinsky, Simon, (1)
Karpovich, Mikhail, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Karpovich, Tatiana, (1), (2)
Kennedy, John F., (1), (2), (3), (4)n
Kerouac, Jack, (1), (2)n
Khodasevich, Vladislav, (1), (2)
Kinbote, Charles (character)
admiration for Shade, (1)
and authorship of “Pale Fire,” (1)n
character of, (1)
efforts to hijack Shade’s poem, (1)
on escape from Zembla, (1)
homosexuality of, (1)
hunger for companionship, (1), (2)
independent apparatus constructed by, (1), (2)
on magical power of language, (1)
Nabokov on, (1)n
powers of insight in, (1)
as purported king of Zembla, (1), (2)
on reading of Pale Fire, (1)
Shade as phantom companion of, (1)
as solipsist, (1)
spiritual/religious life of, (1), (2)
writing style of, (1), (2)
King, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., (1)n
King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov), (1), (2), (3)
“The Kishinev Bloodbath” (V. D. Nabokov), (1)
Koussevitsky, Serge, (1)
Kubrick, Stanley, (1), (2), (3), (4)
“Lance” (Nabokov), (1), (2), (3)n
Lanz, Henry, (1), (2)
Laughlin, James
as Alta Lodge (Utah) host, (1), (2), (3)
background of, (1)
climbing of Lone Peak, Utah, (1), (2)
and Lolita, (1), (2)
and Nikolai Gogol, (1), (2), (3)
prominence as publisher, (1)
publication deal with Nabokov, (1), (2)
and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
relationship with Nabokov, (1)n
and Three Russian Poets, (1)
Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov)
Bend Sinister and, (1)
film version of, (1)
income from, (1)
plot of, (1)
poor initial reception of, (1), (2)
publication of, (1), (2), (3)
sexual passages in, (1), (2)
solipsism of Albinus in, (1)
translations of, (1), (2)
U.S. publication rights, (1)
writing of, (1)
writing style in, (1)
Lawrence, D. H., (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n92–93
Lawrence, Frieda, (1)
Leatherstocking Tales (Cooper), (1), (2)
lectures, academic, during first months in U.S., (1)
lecture tours (1942), (1)
echoes of in Nabokov’s fiction, (1)
income from, (1), (2)
Léger, Fernand, (1)
Lenin, Vladimir, (1), (2)
Leuthold, Dorothy, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Levin, Elena, (1)n, (2)
Levin, Harry, (1), (2), (3)n
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, (1)
Lewis, Janet, (1)n
Library of Congress, Nabokov’s donations to, (1), (2)n
Life magazine, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Lincoln, Abraham, (1), (2)
Lindbergh, Charles, (1)
Lolita (character)
detailed specificity in descriptions of, (1)
echoes of Nabokov’s child in, (1)
mark of doom on, (1), (2)
models for, (1)
sexual allure of, (1)
Véra on, (1)n
Lolita (Nabokov). See also Humbert, Humbert; Lolita; Quilty, Clare
anticipations of in Bend Sinister, (1)
Berkman on, (1)
business matters surrounding, (1)
commercial success of, (1), (2), (3), (4)
controversy over, and publicity, (1)
critical reception of, (1), (2), (3), (4)
and cultural skepticism of 1960s, (1), (2)n
density of references in, (1)
destruction of notes and early drafts, (1)
detailed specificity of description in, (1), (2)
dialogue in, (1)
echoes of Nabokov’s son in, (1), (2)
echoes of Pushkin in, (1)
and The Enchanter, parallels to, (1), (2)n
euphemism in, lurid effect of, (1)
forward by Dr. Ray, (1)
Freudian sexuality pervading, (1)
grimness of story, techniques for relief of, (1), (2), (3)
income from, (1), (2), (3)
interpretation of, Nabokov on, (1), (2), (3)n
and “invention” of America through detail, (1), (2), (3), (4)n
limited availability of in late 1950s, (1)
literary allusions in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)n
and moral apotheosis, claims of, (1)
movie of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
and Nabokov as celebrity, (1), (2), (3)
Nabokov on, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
and Nabokov’s compassion as issue, (1)
as parody, (1), (2), (3)n
and pedophile theme, reasons to, (1)
place names in, (1)
“play-it-for-wisecracks” approach in, (1)
plot of, (1)
potent cultural issues engaged in, (1)
readers’ experience of, (1)
rejections by publishers, (1)
as satire, (1), (2)
scholarship on, (1)
screen rights to, (1)
sense of unreality in, (1), (2), (3)
and sexual predation of girls as theme in Nabokov’s oeuvre, (1)
and sexual themes in Nabokov, (1), (2)
success of, (1), (2)
symbolic readings of, (1), (2)
and U.S. culture, impact on, (1), (2)
on U.S. landscapes, (1), (2)
verbal distancing of reader from, (1)
vulnerability of childhood as theme in, (1)
Wilson on, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
as “without precedent,” (1), (2), (3)
writing style in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Lolita, American setting of
caves as roadside attraction in, (1)
Humbert’s travel as defilement of, (1)
importance to theme of novel, (1)
and large fantasies of Humbert, (1)
Nabokov’s research on, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)n, (8)n
as obstacle for Nabokov, (1), (2)
sense of dream/enigma pervading, (1), (2)
vivid realism of, (1), (2), (3)n
Lolita, publication of, (1)
in Europe, (1), (2), (3)n
French editions and translations, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Great Britain and, (1), (2), (3), (4)
and obscenity laws, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)n, (11)n, (12)n
in U.S., (1)
impact on Nabokovs’ lives, (1)
impact on publisher’s family, (1)
mythology surrounding, (1)
parties and events surrounding, (1)
Véra’s recording of events of, (1), (2)
Lolita, research for, (1)n
on American slang, (1)
driving tour of West (1951) and, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (
6), (7)n, (8)n
notes of, preserved, (1)
on pedophilia, (1), (2)
on pubescent girls, (1)
time spent on, (1)
Lolita, writing of, (1)
balancing of with other work, (1)
Colorado landscape and, (1)
difficulties of, (1)
fear of novel’s suppression and, (1)
La Salle case as model for, (1)
lives of friends and, (1)
locations of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
Nabokov’s childhood and, (1)
Nabokov’s reading and, (1)
near destruction of drafts, (1)
Pushkin’s influence and, (1)
time spent in, (1), (2), (3)
Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, (1), (2), (3)
Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov), (1)
Lot’s Wife (Eastman), (1)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, (1)
Maar, Michael, (1), (2)
MacLeish, Archibald, (1), (2), (3)
Maier, Herbert, (1)
Mailer, Norman, (1)
Mandelstam, Osip, (1)
Mann, Klaus, (1), (2), (3)
Mann, Thomas, (1), (2)
Massine, Léonide, (1)
McAfee, Mildred Helen, (1)
McCarthy, Joe, (1), (2), (3)
McCarthy, Mary, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
McDunnough, J. H., (1)
MCZ. See Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)
Melville, Herman, (1), (2), (3)
Moby-Dick, echoes of in Lolita, (1)
Metalious, Grace, (1)
Michel, Albin, (1)
Michener, Charles Duncan, (1)
Miller, Henry, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
mind, and making of worlds, in Pale Fire, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Minton, Polly, (1), (2), (3)
Minton, Walter, (1), (2)
Moby-Dick (Melville), echoes of in Lolita, (1)
modernism
Bend Sinister and, (1), (2)
and genius, rejection of concept, (1)
national parks as antithesis of, (1), (2)n
stylistic influences on Nabokov, (1), (2)n, (3)n
Moe, Henry Allen, (1)n, (2)
motor courts
history of, (1)
in Lolita, (1)
Nabokovs’ preference for, (1)
mountain climbing
Dmitri Nabokov’s interest in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
in The Gift, (1)n
Nabokov and Laughlin’s ascent of Lone Peak, Utah, (1), (2)
spiritual aspects of, (1), (2), (3)n
Muir, John, (1), (2), (3)
Murphy, Gerald, (1)
Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard), Nabokov at, (1)
and access to scientific equipment, (1), (2)
fond memories of, (1)
lab assistant, (1)
as research fellow, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
as volunteer, (1)
work habits, (1)
music, Nabokov’s limited interest in, (1)
Mydans, Carl, (1), (2)
Nabokov, Dmitri, (1), (2)