Nabokov, Vladimir (Vol. 6) - Nabokov, Vladimir 1899–

Nabokov, Vladimir 1899–

Nabokov, born in Russia and educated in England, lived in Europe and, from 1940 until about 1970, in the United States. Still an American citizen, he now lives in Switzerland. Nabokov is a novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, playwright, autobiographer, and translator. Before 1940, he wrote in Russian; since then he has employed only English for his creative work. Nabokov's ineffable prose is joyful, intelligent, and sly, "too clever by half." Regarded as a whole, his books compose one of the most unique and distinguished oeuvres of our time. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)

Nabokov … regards the world we live in as possessing a reality, or unreality, of quite different order and value from that of the world in which, and out of which, he creates. The reality of the one and that of the other are as non-transferable currencies; the former is "unattainable," the latter always in...

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