Stalking Nabokov

by Brian Boyd

  24. On the night of the Burning Barn, Ada turns around to Van, “naively ready to embrace him the way Juliet is recommended to receive her Romeo” (Ada 121).

  25. The Paris–“already married” theme is played in two other keys in the chapter preceding Van’s meeting with Lucette at Ovenman’s bar. In Paris, Van encounters first Greg Erminin, whom he discovers to be already married (a theme strikingly emphasized by the sustained echoes of Eugene Onegin, where One-gin in the final chapter finds that Tatyana has already married Prince N.), and then Cordula, whom he happily, hurriedly makes love to, despite knowing she is already married to Ivan Tobak.

  26. Nabokov, interview with Bernard Pivot, “Apostrophes,” TF-1, May 30, 1975.

  27. Cited in Bobbie Ann Mason, Nabokov’s Garden: A Guide to Ada (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1974), 163.

  26. A BOOK BURNER RECANTS: THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA

  1. Véra Nabokov to Fred Hills, April 20, 1976, cited VNAY 654.

  2. Martin Amis, review of Look at the Harlequins!, New Statesman, April 25, 1975.

  3. Tadashi Wakashima, “Watashi no Keshikata” [The effaced I], Gunzo 11 (2009).

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  ARCHIVES

  Bakhmeteff Collection, Columbia University Library

  Cornell Lepidoptera Collection, Cornell University

  Princeton University Press Archives, Princeton, New Jersey

  Vladimir Nabokov Archive, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

  BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV

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  ——. The Nabokov-Wilson Letters. Ed. Simon Karlinsky. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

  Nabokov Interviews

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” Providence Sunday Journal, May 13, 1962.

  Interview with Newsweek. “Lolita’s Creator—Author Nabokov, a ‘Cosmic Joker.’ ” Newsweek, June 25, 1962, 51–54.

  Interview with Bernard Pivot. “Apostrophes.” TF-1, May 30, 1975.

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