Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977
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]–[>], [>]–[>]
declines election to National Institute of Arts and Letters, [>]–[>]
declines honorary degrees, [>], [>]
Festschrift in honor of, [>]–[>], [>]
invited to be Library of Congress Honorary Consultant in American Letters [>]–[>]
receives Playboy award, [>]
interviews
corrects and comments on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
declines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
false interview, [>]
on his interviewers, [>]–[>]
televised, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
lectures and invitations
delivers a lecture, [>], [>], [>]
invited to Israel, [>], [>]–[>]
invited to deposit manuscripts at Library of Congress [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
invited to lecture, [>], [>], [>], [>]
personal life
daily life, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
early life in Berlin, [>]–[>]
favorite books, [>]
fiftieth wedding anniversary, [>]
financial situation, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
health of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
indifference to gastronomy, [>]
indifference to pornography, [>]
interest in mimicry in nature, [>]
on his biography, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
on his father, [>]–[>], [>]
on independence of mind, [>]
state of mind, [>]
travels to Europe, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
travels to the West, [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Butterflies; Nabokov, Dmitri
political views
on America, [>]–[>], [>]
on Germany, [>], [>], [>]
on Israel, [>], [>]
on landing on the moon, [>], [>]
on Russian émigrés, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
on Soviet dissidents, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
on Soviet history writing, [>]
on USSR, [>], [>], [>]
writing and writers
on book endorsements, [>]
on copyright, [>]
on his writing, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
on literary modernism, [>]–[>]
on modern Russian poets, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
on moralizing literature, [>]–[>]
on paperbacks, [>],
on prosody, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
on reviews, [>]
on Russian literature, [>]
on writers' endorsements, [>], [>]
on writers' responsibility, [>], [>]–[>]
opposed to political novels, [>]–[>]
rejects conference participation, [>]
writing career
anagrams and acrostics, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
applies for grants, [>], [>], [>]
as autographer, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
as indexer, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as proofreader, [>]
as translator, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] (See also Translations; Translators)
changes publisher, [>]
clipping service, [>]–[>], [>]
concern over publicity, [>], [>], [>]
corrects Esquire misstatements, [>]–[>]
corrects his Festschrift, [>]–[>]
critical of editors, [>]
declines to review, [>]
his methodology, [>]
on movies, [>]–[>]
on second readers, [>], [>]
penname (See Sirin, Vladimir)
pleased with articles on him, [>]
proposed publications, [>]–[>], [>]
proposed translations, [>]–[>]
proposes two projects to Hitchcock, [>]–[>]
pseudonyms (See Bloodmark, Vivian; Darkbloom, Vivian)
recordings, [>], [>]
work in progress, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
See also under titles of VN's books
Nabokov Archive, [>]
Nabokov: His Life in Part (Field), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Nabokovian, [>]
"Nabokov in Russian Émigré Criticism" (Foster), [>]
"Nabokov's Artistry" (Schickel), [>]
Nabokov's Congeries, [>], [>]
Nabokpv's Dark Cinema (Appel), [>]
Nabokov's Deceptive World (Rowe), [>]
Nabokov's Dozen, [>], [>], [>]
book cover design, [>]
dust jacket design, [>]
Nabokov's Quartet, [>]
dust jacket design, [>]
"Nabokov's Way" (Enright), [>]
Nabokov: The Man and His Work (Dembo), [>]
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 940–97
Karlinsky), [>], [>]
Nakhamkes, I.M., [>]
National Book Award, [>]
National Book Committee, [>]–[>]
National Medal for Literature, [>]–[>]
The Nation. See Hatch, Robert
Natural Child (Willingham), [>]–[>]
Nemerov, Howard, [>]
letters to, [>], [>]
New American Library, [>], [>]
New Directions, [>], [>], [>]
The New Golden Land (Honour), [>]
The New Leader, [>]
Newman, Charles, [>]
New Republic, [>]
The New Russian Word, [>]
The New Statesman
letters to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
The New World (Steinberg), [>]
New World Writing, [>]
The New Worker, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Maxwell, William; Ross, Harold;
Shawn, William; White, Katharine A.
New York Review of Books, [>], [>], [>], [>]
letters to, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
See also Epstein, Barbara
New York Sun, [>]
New York Times, [>]
letter to, [>]
New York Times Book Review, [>]
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
See also Leonard, John; Lyons, Herbert
New York Times Magazine, [>]
"The NFactor" (Gass), [>]
Nichols, Stephen, Jr., [>]
Nicolson, Harold, [>]–[>]
Nicolson, Nigel, [>], [>]–[>]
Nikolai Gogol, [>]
Nine, [>]
Norman, Charles, [>]
Not by Bread Alone (Dudintsev), [>]–[>]
Notes from a Bottle Found on a Beach at Carmel (Connell), [>]
Notes on Prosody, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Nouvelle Revue Française, [>], [>]
Nouvelles Littéraires. See Lefevre
Novel with Cocaine (Levi), [>]
Novïty Zhurnal, [>], [>]
Noyes, Charles (Viking)
letter to, [>]–[>]
Noyes, George R.
letter to, [>]–[>]
Nugget, [>]
Oakes, Philip
letters to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Obolensky, Ivan (McDowell, Obolensky), [>], [>]
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Obscene Publications Bill (Britain), [>]–[>]
The Observer
letter to, [>]
Odoevtsev, Irina, [>]
"Of Mandarins and Maoists" (White), [>]
"The Old Magician at Home" (Shenker), [>]
Olympia Press, 172, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
publications of banned, [>]
See also Girodias, Maurice
"On a Book Entitled Lolita," [>], [>]
O'Neil, Paul, [>]
"On Revisiting Father's Room" (Dmitri Nabokov), [>]
The Opinions of Oliver Allston (Brooks), [
>], [>]
Opïtï, [>], [>]
The Opposing Self (Trilling), [>]
The Original of Laura, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Our Butterflies and Moths (Howe), [>]–[>]
The Outrage, [>]
Ovenden, Graham, [>]
The Overcoat (Gogol), [>]
Pale Fire, [>], [>]
dust jacket design, [>]
publication of, [>], [>]
VN describes, [>]
writing of, [>], [>]
Pandit, R.V., [>]
Panther Books, [>]
Paris Match, [>]
Parker, Dorothy, [>]
Parker, Stephen Jan
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Parry, Albert, [>]
Partisan Review, [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Rahv, Philip
"The Passenger," [>], [>]
The Passionate Friends (Wells), [>]
Pasternak, Boris, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Paulhan, Jean, [>], [>]
Pavlov, Ivan, [>]
Pavlovich, Timofey, [>]
Pavlovna, Maria, [>]
Payne, Robert, [>]
Penguin Books, [>]–[>]
See also Mansell, Heather
People, [>]
"A Personal View of N" (Karlinsky), [>]
Pertzov, Peter, [>]
Peterson, Joan de
letter to, [>]–[>]
Peterson, Natalya Nabokov de, [>]
Peterson, Peter de, [>], [>]
letter to, [>]–[>]
Petkevich, Olga (sister), [>], [>]
Petkevich, Rostislav (nephew), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Petrov, Yevgeny, [>]
Phaedra, [>], [>]
"Pilgram," [>]
Piotrow, F.J.
letter to, [>]–[>]
Pipes, Richard
letter to, [>]
"Playback" (Noel), [>]
Playboy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Hefner, Hugh; Macauley, Robie;
Spectorsky, A.C.
Pnin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
book cover design, [>]–[>], [>]
dust jacket design, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
excerpts published, [>], [>], [>]
publication of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
royalties, [>], [>]
translations of, [>], [>], [>]
VN answers editor's notes, [>]–[>], [>]
VN on, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
writing of, [>], [>]
"Pnin's Day," [>]–[>]
Podvig, [>]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [>]
Poems
dust jacket design, [>]–[>]
Poems and Problems, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
The Poet of the Month (New Directions), [>]
Poggioli, Renato, [>]
Poirier, Richard, [>]
Polking, Kirk (Writer's Digest)
letter to, [>]
Polyakov, Madame, [>]
Popkin, Henry, [>]
Poplavsky, Boris Yulianovich, [>]
Poppy, John, [>]
The Portable Nabokov, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
"Portrait of my Mother," [>]
"Portrait of My Uncle," [>]
Posel, Sidney L., [>]
Poslednie novosti (Dernières nouvelles), [>]
"The Potato Elf," [>]
Pound, Ezra, [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Pound Era (Kenner), [>]
The Power of Blackness (Levin), [>]
The Power of Darkness (Tolstoy), [>]
Prescott, Orville, [>]
The Present, [>]
Pritchett, V.S., [>]–[>]
"The Problem of the Igor Tale" (Moser), [>]
"Problems of Translation: Onegin in English," [>]
Producers Theatre, Inc., [>]
Proffer, Ellendea
letters to, [>], [>]
Proffer, Carl R.
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Progressive, [>]
The Provisional Government (V.D. Nabokov), [>], [>]
Pushkin, [>]
Pushkin, Aleksandr, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Putnam, Samuel, [>]
Putnam's of London, [>]
Pyatigorsky, Gregor, [>], [>]
"The Queen of Spades" (Pushkin), [>]
Rachmaninov, Sergey, [>]
Rahv, Philip (Partisan Review)
letters to, [>], [>], 172–[>]
Random House, [>], [>], [>]
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, [>], [>], [>]
publication of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
"Rebel Blue, Byrony White" (Times Educational Supplement), [>]
Reinhardt, Max, [>]
letters to, [>], [>]–[>]
The Reporter, [>]
"The Return of Chorb," [>], [>], [>]
"A Review of a Novel You Can't Buy" (Schickel), [>]
Revue Paris. See Thiebaut
Reynolds, Victor (Cornell University Press), [>]
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, [>], [>]
Roche, Denis (translator), [>]
"The Room," [>]
Rosen, K.N., [>]
Rosenstein, Gertrude
letter to, [>]–[>]
Roshchin, [>]
Rosoff, Samuel
letters to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Ross, Harold (New Yorker), [>], [>], [>]
letters to, [>]
Rosset, Barney (Grove Press), [>]
Rowe, William Woodin, [>]
Rowohlt, [>]
Roy, W. (translator), [>]
Rul' (The Rudder), [>], [>], [>]
Russell, Bertrand, [>]
Russel, Peter
letter to, [>]–[>]
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, [>], [>]
Russian Literature Triquarterly, [>]
Russian orthography, [>]
Russian Provisional Government, [>]
Russian Review, [>]
Russian Revolution, [>]
"Russian Transparencies," [>]
Rydelius, Ellen (translator), [>], [>]
Sablin, Madame, [>], [>]
Salinger, J.D., [>]
Salisbury, Harrison, [>]
Salter, James, [>]
Sartre, Jean-Paul, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Saturday Evening Post
letter to, [>]–[>]
Saturday Review
letter to, [>]–[>]
Saturday Review of the Arts, [>]–[>]
Sawyer, Buz, [>]
Saxton Fellowship, [>]
Schickel, Richard, [>]
letter to, [>]–[>]
Schimanski, Stefan, [>]
Schirman, Maître, [>]–[>]
Schorer, Mark
letter to, [>]
Schreyer, Leslie J.
letter to, [>]–[>]
Schwarz, Harry, [>]
Schwarz-Bart, André, [>]
Scott, W.B., [>]
Scudder, Geoffrey George, [>]
Scythians, [>]
Selby, John
letter to, [>]–[>]
Selvinsky, Ilya, [>], [>]
Semler, Mrs. Peter (America)
letter to, [>]–[>]
The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikplai Gogol (Karlinsky), [>]
Shalyapin, Feodor. See Chaliapin, Feodor
Shapiro, Harvey (New York Times Magazine)
letter to, [>]
Shaw, Irwin, [>]
Shawn, William (New Yorker), [>], [>]
The Sheltering Sky (Bowles), [>]
Shenker, Israel (New York Times Book Review), [>]
letter to, [>]–[>]
Shmelyov, Sergeyevich, [>]
Sie Kommt-Kommt Sie?, [>]
Sifton, Elisabeth (Viking), [>]
Sikorski, Elena (sister)
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
/> Simmons, John E.
letters to, [>]–[>]
Simon, John Kenneth
letter to, [>]
Simon, Richard, [>]
Simon & Schuster, [>], [>]
See also Brockway, Wallace
Sirin, Vladimir (penname for VN), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Skow, John, [>]–[>]
Slater, Lydia Pasternak, [>]
Slonim, Sonia (sister-in-law), [>]
Smenovehovtsï, [>]
Smith, Stewart H.
letter to, [>]–[>]
Snowdon, Lord, [>]
letter to, [>]–[>]
Sokolov, Sasha, [>]
Sologub, Fyodor. See Teternikov, Fyodor
Solus Rex, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
letter to, [>]–[>]
Some People (Harold Nicolson), [>]–[>]
The Song of Igor's Campaign, [>], [>], [>], [>]
translation of, [>]
VN describes, [>]–[>]
Soviet-American relations, [>], [>]
Soviet Image of the United States (Barghoorn), [>]
Sovremennïye Zapiski, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Speak, America, [>]
Speak, Memory (Conclusive Evidence), [>], [>], [>]
dust jacket design, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
publication of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
translations of, [>], [>], [>]
VN on, [>], [>], [>], [>]
writing of, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Speak On, Memory, [>]
Spectorsky, A.C. (Playboy), [>]
letters to, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
"Spring," [>], [>]
Stanford University, [>]
Starr, Frederick
letter to, [>]–[>]
Stegner, Page
letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]