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acculturation of, (1), (2)
adjustment to life in U.S., (1)
appearance of, (1), (2), (3)
and butterfly collecting, (1)
in Cambridge, isolation of, (1)
car crash (1980), (1), (2)
career of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)n
character of, (1), (2)
childhood in Europe, (1), (2), (3)
as CIA agent, (1), (2)n
and Colorado trip (1947), (1), (2)
and drive from New York to California (1941), (1), (2)
echoes of in Ada, (1)n
education of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)n
health problems of, (1)
illness, winter of 1941-42, (1)
instability of early life and, (1)
on Ithaca, life in, (1)
as Jew, (1)
and journey to America, (1)
and Lolita, (1), (2), (3)n
love of fast cars, airplanes and boats, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)
memoir by, (1)
and Minton scandal, (1)
and mountain climbing, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
move to Italy, (1)n
Nabokov on, (1)
Nabokov’s CBC interview and, (1)
in New Mexico (1954), (1)n
parents’ concerns about, (1), (2), (3)
parents’ focus on success of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
parents’ love for, (1)n, (2)
pride in Nabokov, (1)
residence near parents, (1)n, (2)
summer jobs in college, (1)
as translator, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n, (6)n243–44
in Utah, (1), (2), (3)
in Yosemite National Park, (1)
young adulthood, (1)
youthful indiscretions of, (1), (2)
Nabokov, Elena (sister), Nabokov’s correspondence with, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna (mother), (1), (2), (3)n
Nabokov, Kirill (brother), (1)
Nabokov, Natalie (cousin’s ex-wife), (1)
Nabokov, Nicolas (cousin)
acculturation of, (1), (2)n
anti-Soviet activism of, (1)n
association with Nabokov’s father, (1)n
FBI file on, (1)n
help finding work for Nabokov, (1)
on Jannelli, (1)
literary career of, (1), (2)
as model of émigré success, (1), (2)n
and Nabokov’s hiring at Cornell, (1)
Wilson and, (1)
Nabokov, Peter (cousin), (1)n, (2)n
Nabokov, Sergei (brother), (1)
Nabokov, Véra Evseevna (wife)
appearance and demeanor of, (1), (2), (3)
in Berlin, dangers faced by, (1), (2), (3)
in Cambridge, (1), (2)n
cancer scare (1954), (1)
character of, (1)
comments on essays by Wilson, (1)
and Dmitri, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
and dreams, recording of, (1)
and drive from New York to California (1941), (1), (2), (3)
driving lessons for, (1)
employment, (1), (2), (3)
and family poverty, efforts to mask, (1)
and flight from Germany, (1)
friends of, (1)
illness after arrival in U.S., (1)
as Jew, (1), (2), (3)n
literary mind of, (1)
and Lolita
business matters surrounding, (1)
defense of, (1), (2)n
efforts to publish, (1), (2)n
events surrounding publication of, (1)
Nabokov’s celebrity from, (1)
Nabokov’s efforts to burn drafts of, (1)
recording of events surrounding, (1), (2)
marriage to Nabokov, happiness of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
on Mintons’ marriage troubles, (1)
on move to America, (1)
Nabokov’s affairs and, (1)
and Nabokov’s business matters, (1), (2)n, (3)n
on Nabokov’s butterfly study, (1)
Nabokov’s CBC interview and, (1)
Nabokov’s correspondence with, (1), (2), (3)
in Nabokov’s dreams, (1), (2)
on Nabokov’s work, (1)
and pleasure in isolation, (1)
political views of, (1)
search for Boston apartment, (1)
support for Nabokov’s writing career, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n
in Tennessee, (1)
translations of Nabokov’s works by, (1)
and trip to U.S., (1)n
and turmoil of 1960s, views on, (1)
and Western U.S., family trips to, (1), (2)
Colorado, (1)
Utah, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
and Wilson, (1), (2)
Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (V.D., father)
as butterfly enthusiast, (1)n
career of, (1)n
and émigré support for Nabokov, (1), (2), (3)
as friend of Tolstoy, (1)
Jewish friends’ gratitude toward, (1), (2)
literary review founded by, (1)
murder of, (1), (2)
and Nabokov’s anti-Bolshevism, (1)
Nicolas Nabokov and, (1)n
opposition to Russian pogroms, (1)
punishment for pogrom opposition, (1)
national parks
as antithesis of modernism, (1), (2)n
building style in, (1), (2), (3)
Nabokov’s attraction to, (1)
visits to in Lolita, (1)n
New Directions Press, (1), (2), (3), (4)
New Hampshire, Nabokovs in, (1)
New Mexico, Nabokovs in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
The New Republic, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
New York
Nabokov’s arrival in, (1)
Nabokov’s residences in, (1), (2)
The New Yorker
on Andrey Avinoff, (1)n
editing of Nabokov by, (1), (2)n
and Lolita, (1)
Nabokov’s fan base built from, (1)
Nabokov’s financial arrangement with, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Nabokov’s review of Lolita in, (1)n
Nabokov’s stories published in, (1), (2)
Pnin chapters and, (1), (2), (3)n
Speak, Memory chapters published in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Wilson and, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)n
New York Review of Books, (1), (2)
New York Times, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov)
central points about literature in, (1)
as primer in reading Nabokov, (1)n
publication of, (1), (2)
publisher’s concerns about, (1), (2)
revisions in, at publisher’s request, (1)
submission of to Wilson for comment, (1)
and translations of Gogol, poor quality of, (1), (2)n, (3), (4)
on Utah, scenic views on, (1)
Wilson on, (1)
writing of, (1), (2), (3), (4)
O’Neil, Paul, (1)
“One Reader Writes” (Hemingway), (1)
Oregon, Nabokovs in, (1)
Pale Fire (Nabokov). See also Kinbote, Charles; Shade, John
American images pervading, (1)
density of references in, (1)
echoes linking Shade’s poem and Kinbote’s life story, (1)
images of reflection in, (1)
innovative structure of, (1)
jumping between notes in, (1)
as metaphor, (1)
Nabokov as presence in, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Nabokov on interpretation of, (1)n
Nabokov’s distance from evil in, (1)
setting of, (1), (2)
slain waxwing image in, (1)
spiritualism in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Wilson on, (1)n
writing of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
“Pale Fire” (Shade)
echoes of Nabokov’s beliefs in, (1)
Kinbote’s additions to, (1)n
Kinbote’s hijacking of, (1)
literary echoes in, (1), (2)
metaphysic developed in, (1)
Nabokov’s views on, (1)n
and poet’s creativity, higher implications of, (1), (2), (3), (4)
on Shade’s daughter’s suicide, (1), (2), (3)
spiritual dimension in, (1), (2), (3)
as study of Shade’s mental crisis, (1)
style of, (1), (2), (3)
parents of Nabokov. See also Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna (mother); Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (V. D., father)
as Anglophiles, (1), (2)
as intellectual elites, (1)
interest in entomology, (1)
Pasternak, Boris, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)n
pedophilia. See also sexual predation of girls
as issue in U.S. culture, Lolita and, (1)
Nabokov’s research on for Lolita, (1), (2)
Peyton Place (Metalious), (1)
Playboy magazine, (1)
plot in Nabokov
Pnin and, (1)
Wilson on, (1)
Pnin (Nabokov). See also Pnin, Timofey P.; VN
aquamarine bowl as symbol in, (1)
Berkman on, (1)
and commercial success, hopes for, (1), (2), (3)
density of references in, (1)
elements from Nabokov’s life in, (1), (2)
emotional disappointments of, (1), (2)
ending of, (1)
higher realm implied in, (1)
housewarming scene, (1)
Mira Belochkin in, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
Nabokov on, (1)
Nabokov’s cruelty and, (1)
Nabokov’s distance from evil in, (1)
New Yorker and, (1), (2), (3)n
and Pale Fire, anticipations of, (1)
publication of, (1)
reviews of, (1)
shadow of impermanence over characters in, (1)
sparsity of plot in, (1)
stability of reality in, (1)
structure of, (1)
topicality of in 1950s America, (1), (2)
Viking Press’s concerns about, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Wilson on, (1), (2)
writing of, (1), (2), (3)n203–04
writing style in, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Pnin, Timofey P. (character)
descriptions of, (1)
firing and departure of, (1)
and reality, misconceptions of, (1), (2)
reappearance in Pale Fire, (1)
relationship with stepson in, (1), (2)
sources for, (1)
spiritual beliefs of, (1)
as sympathetic character, (1), (2)
Poe, Edgar Allan, (1)
Poems and Problems (Nabokov), (1)n
political views of Nabokovs, (1), (2), (3). See also Bolshevism, Nabokovs’ hatred of
Pound, Ezra, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
Proust, Marcel, (1), (2), (3), (4)n
Pushkin, Alexander. See also Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
French influence on, (1)
influence on Nabokov, (1), (2)
Nabokov on, (1)
Nabokov’s translations of, (1), (2)n
Wilson’s essays on, (1), (2)n
Putnam Press, and publication of Lolita, (1), (2), (3)
Quilty, Clare (character), (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, (1)
racialism in U.S., Nabokov on, (1)
Rand, Ayn, (1)
reader’s response, Nabokov on goals for, (1)
reality
American, and Nabokov’s writing style, (1), (2)n
decaying sense of in Lolita, (1), (2)
mystery underling, in Nabokov’s fiction, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Nabokov on, (1), (2), (3)n
severing of text from, in Nabokov, (1)
spiritual dimension of
in American literature, (1), (2)n
in Nabokov’s fiction, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov)
autobiographical elements in, (1)
modernist style of, (1)
poor sales of, (1)
publication of, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n
sexual passages in, (1)
Wilson on, (1)
writing of, (1)
Reid, Mayne, (1), (2), (3), (4)n
Remington, Charles L., (1)
Rinehart, Stanley M., (1)n
Roosevelt, Eleanor, (1)
Rosenfeld, Paul, (1), (2)
Ross, Harold, (1)
Russia
loss of to Bolsheviks, (1), (2)
Nabokov on abuses in, (1), (2)
Nabokov’s writing career in, (1)
pogroms, (1), (2)n
restrictions on Jews in, (1)
Russian émigrés, Western views on, (1)
Russian language
Dmitri Nabokov’s education in, (1)
Nabokov’s poetry in, (1)n
transition from, Nabokov’s sense of loss over, (1)
Russian literature. See also translations by Nabokov into English
desire to introduce U.S. audience to, (1), (2), (3)
favorite writers of Nabokov, (1)
influence on Nabokov, (1)
Nabokov on social compassion in, (1)
Nabokov’s possessiveness of legacy of, (1)
wartime fluctuation of U.S. interest in, (1)
Russian novels of Nabokov, (1). See also translations of Nabokov’s works into English; specific works
Russian Problem, Nabokov and, (1), (2)n
Russian Revolution
Nabokov on, (1)
number of Russians in U.S. and, (1)
Salinger, J. D.
career parallels to Nabokov, (1)
Catcher in the Rye, echoes of in Lolita, (1)
success of, as model for Nabokov, (1)
Sarton, May, (1)
Schiff, Stacy, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Schmoll, Hazel, (1), (2)
Schwartz, Delmore, (1)n
scientific management movement, (1)
Sellers, Peter, (1)
sentimentality in literature, Nabokov on, (1)
sexual predation of girls. See also pedophilia
in The Enchanter, (1)
Nabokov’s sources on, (1)
Nabokov’s views on, (1)
source of Nabokov’s interest in, (1)n
as theme in Lolita, choice of, (1)
as theme in Nabokov’s oeuvre, (1), (2)n
sexual scenes in Nabokov’s work
before Lolita, (1)
Nabokov’s eschewing of direct, vulgar depictions, (1), (2)
Shade, John (character). See also “Pale Fire” (Shade)
death of, (1), (2)
echoes of Nabokov in, (1), (2)
Shawn, William, (1), (2), (3)n
“Signs and Symbols” (Nabokov), (1)
Sirin, V., as nom de plume, (1), (2)
The Skin of Our Teeth (Wilder), (1)
Smith, Phyllis, (1)
social compassion in literature, Nabokov on, (1)
“Some new or little-known Nearctic Neonympha (Lepidoptera; Satyridae)” (Nabokov), (1), (2)
The Song of Igor’s Campaign, Nabokov’s translation of, (1), (2), (3)n
Soviet Union
Nabokov on, (1), (2), (3), (4)
persecution of writers in, (1)
seizing of Nabokov’s estate by, (1)
Wilson as supporter of, (1)
and World War II, Nabokov on, (1), (2)
Speak, Memory (Nabokov)
on butterfly collecting, (1), (2)
as commercial flop, (1), (2)
Nabokov on, (1)n
on Nabokov’s father, (1)n
Nabokov’s Russian translation of, (1)
on Nabokov’s voyage to U.S., (1)
Nabokov’s writing style in, (1)
plans for sequel to, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
publication of, (1)
on “realm of timelessness” underlying life, (1)
serial publication of chapters from, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
unity of Nabokov’s world as theme in, (1)
Updike on, (1)n
writing of, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Stalin, Josef, (1)
Stallings, Don, (1)
Stanford University, Nabokov at
and butterfly collecting, (1)
courses taught, (1), (2)
friends and colleagues, (1), (2)n
invitation to teach, (1)
Nabokovs’ residence in Palo Alto, (1)
popularity of lectures, (1)
prewar life at Stanford and, (1)
teaching style, (1), (2), (3)n
and translations of Russian works, (1)
travel to (See driving tour, New York to California (1941))
Stegner, Page, (1)
Straus, Roger, (1)
Stravinsky, Igor, (1)
Strong Opinions (Nabokov), (1)
Studies in Classic American Literature (Lawrence), (1), (2)n92–93
Switzerland, Nabokovs in
butterfly collection, (1)
and loss of U.S. maps and travel notes, (1)
and pleasure in isolation, (1)
view of America from, (1)
visits to U.S. from, (1)
symbol and allegory, Nabokov on, (1)
Szeftel, Marc, (1), (2)n, (3)n
Taboritsky, Sergei, (1)
Tate, Allen, (1)
television
and Lolita, sensation created by, (1)
Nabokov’s CBC Lolita interview, (1)
Thompson, Bertrand, (1), (2)n
Thompson, Lisbet, (1)
Thoreau, Henry, (1), (2)
Three Russian Poets (Nabokov), (1)
time, treatment of
in Nabokov, (1), (2)
in Tolstoy, (1)
“Time and Ebb” (Nabokov), (1)
Tolstoy, Alexandra, (1), (2), (3)
Tolstoy, Leo, (1), (2), (3)n
Tolstoy Foundation, (1), (2)
translations by Nabokov into English, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)n, (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)n133. See also Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), Nabokov’s translation and commentary
Laughlin’s publication of, (1)
possessiveness over Russian literary legacy and, (1)
Wilson and, (1), (2)n
writing of Nikolai Gogol and, (1), (2)n, (3), (4)
translations by Nabokov into Russian, (1), (2)
translations of Nabokov’s works into English, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)n243–44
importance to Nabokov, (1), (2)
U.S. market size and, (1)
translations of Nabokov’s works into other languages, (1), (2), (3), (4)
translation work by Dmitri Nabokov, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)n233–34, (6)n243–44