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Coat of Arms of the Nabokov family, members of an ancient Russian nobility, granted to them on 1 January 1798 by Emperor Paul I Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914 The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia.The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.
Apostrophes was a live, [1] weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television [2] created and hosted by Bernard Pivot.It ran for fifteen years [2] (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television [1] [3] (around 6 million regular viewers [1]).
It was first written and published in French in Mesures (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936) [1] and subsequently in English (translated by Nabokov and Hilda Ward) in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1943). [ 2 ] It was first anthologized in Nine Stories (1947) [ 3 ] and was later reproduced in Nabokov's Dozen (1958) [ 4 ] and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov .
Maschenka (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka; English: Mary) is a 1987 international film adaptation of the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under his pen name V. Sirin in 1926. The film was directed by John Goldschmidt from a screenplay by John Mortimer and stars Cary Elwes as Ganin and Irina Brook as Maschenka.
It was written in 1923, when Nabokov was working as a farm labourer in France, and was first published on August 14 and 16 in Rul' (The Rudder), a Russian newspaper of which Nabokov's father had become editor in 1920. [3] It was a response to Scott's diaries, which Nabokov had seen in the British Museum some years earlier.
The song was instrumental in showcasing Alizée's image as that of a seductive Lolita character, referring to the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The lyrics to the song also make several references to the songwriter, Mylène Farmer .
Nabokov felt that Field had created a character named Vladimir Nabokov in his biography—a character whom the real author could not recognize (Johnson, 330). Nabokov “had already perfected the role of his own biographer—in a series of mock biographies that began with a game he invented in adolescence, and that continued in his memoir Speak ...